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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I haena muckle concern wi' that, Monkbarns," said the old man, "for naebody wad trust a bodle to a gaberlunzie."
He thocht aiblins if the bank manager saw it he micht "pairt" but deevil a bodle wull he hand ower, though the doctor saw him himsel'. The Minister nodded his apprehension, then taking the pipe out of his mouth, inquired, 'Wha was the puir widdie woman?
"Dear me!" said Edie, with affected surprise; "weel, I thought there was naething but what your honour could hae studden in the way o' agreeable conversation, unless it was about the Praetorian yonder, or the bodle that the packman sauld to ye for an auld coin." "Pshaw! pshaw!" said the Antiquary, turning from him hastily, and retreating into the house.
"Eh, what?" said the Abbot, "a bodle for thy ill-set tongue, false loon, dost think I did not hear him sing his fair and seemly orisons? I tell thee, rude out-land jabberer, that I am a Douglas, and have ears better than those of any Frenchman that ever breathed.
The race o' them never brocht ocht in my generation to puir Scotland worth a bodle, unless it micht be a new fricassee to fyle a stamach wi'. I'm fair bate to ken what this Coont wants here. 'Drimdarroch, says he, but that's fair rideeculous, unless it was the real auld bauld Drimdarroch, and that's nae ither than Doom. I winna wonder if he heard o' Leevie ere ever he left the France."
Macleuchar, aware that she had a defensive part to sustain in the encounter which was to follow, was in no hurry to hasten the discussion by returning a ready answer. "Mrs. Macleuchar!" "I am just serving a customer. Indeed, hinny, it will no be a bodle cheaper than I tell ye."
She gangs whiles to the doctor's but he's a kin' o' a freen' o' the yerl's,'cause he likes stinks but that's the yoong doctor." "Does her brother never go out to dinner anywhere, and take her with him?" "Naebody cares a bodle aboot his lordship i' the haill country-side, sae far as I can learn.
Were the like o' me ever to change a note, wha the deil d'ye think wad be sic fules as to gie me charity after that? it wad flee through the country like wildfire, that auld Edie suld hae done siccan a like thing, and then, I'se warrant, I might grane my heart out or onybody wad gie me either a bane or a bodle." "Is there nothing, then, that I can do for you?"
"Nay, let him tell the truth," said Seyton, "so far as it harms not our scheme. Say that Henry Seyton met with him, my good fellow; I care not a brass bodle for the feud." "A feud with the Douglas was ever to be feared, however," said George, displeasure mingling with his natural deep gravity of manner. "Not when the best of the name is on my side," replied Seyton. "Alas!
"He wadna gie a bodle to save us frae famishing," said Hobbie; "and, if he did, the bread that I bought wi't would stick in my throat, when I thought it was part of the price of puir auld Scotland's crown and independence." "There's the Laird o' Dunder, ane o' the auldest families in Tiviotdale."
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