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'Hoo 'ill she manage that, honest woman? She maun hae but little to spare frae the cleedin' o' 'm. 'She's a gude manager, Mistress Faukner. And, ye see, she has the bleachgreen yet. 'She doesna weir cotton sarks, growled MacGregor. 'Mony's the wob o' mine she's bleached and boucht tu! Nobody heeding him yet, he began to feel insulted, and broke in upon the conversation with intent.
I jist gaed to the coachman and gart him put his horses tu, and tak his denner wi' him, and m'unt the box, and drive straucht awa til Aberdeen, and lea' the carriage whaur I boucht it, and du siclike wi' the horses, and come hame by the co'ch. As he ended the sad tale, he glanced up at Kirsty, and saw her regarding him with a look such as he had never seen, imagined, or dreamed of before.
"Whan saw ye Donal?" asked Janet of Nicie. "No this lang time no sin' I was here last," answered Nicie, who did not now get home so often as the rest. "I was thinkin'," returned her mother, "ye sud 'maist see him noo frae the back o' the muckle hoose; for he was tellin' me he was wi' the nowt' i' the new meadow upo' the Lorrie bank, 'at missie's papa boucht frae Jeames Glass."
"It's yer ain sae lang's I'm at the heid o' 's lordship's affairs." "Na; that canna be. He's boucht my time, an' he'll pey me for 't, an' he s' hae his ain." "Ye needna consider 'im mair nor rizzon: he's been nae freen' to you or yours." "What's that to the p'int?" "A' thing to the p'int wi' me here to haud it richt atween ye."
"Sae your auld landlord's deid, Tibbie!" he said at last. "Ay, honest man! He had aye a kin' word for a poor body." "Ay, ay, nae doobt. But what wad ye say gin I tell't ye that I had boucht the bit hoosie, and was yer new landlord, Tibbie?" "I wad say that the door-sill wants men'in', to haud the snaw oot; an' the bit hoosie's sair in want o' new thack.
Even whan ye boucht a man an' paid for him, accordin' to the Jewish law, ye cudna mak a slave o' 'im for a'thegither, ohn him seekin' 't himsel'. Eh! gin she could only get my father hame! sighed Robert, after a pause. 'What should she want him home for? asked Dr. Anderson, still making conversation. 'I didna mean hame to Rothieden.
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