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Updated: June 4, 2025
There were times when I was tempted to stop his mouth with some small change; but whether it was from shame or pride whether it was for my own sake or Catriona's whether it was because I thought him no fit father for his daughter, or because I resented that grossness of immediate falsity that clung about the man himself the thing was clean beyond me.
These friendly offers I must barbarously cast back; and my rejection sometimes wounded her so cruelly that I must unbend and seek to make it up to her in kindness. The base of my trouble was Catriona's extraordinary innocence, at which I was not so much surprised as filled with pity and admiration.
Alan ran upstairs and returned with our saddle-bags and James More's portmanteau; I picked up Catriona's bundle where she had dropped it on the stair; and we were setting forth out of that dangerous house, when Bazin stopped the way with cries and gesticulations. He had whipped under a table when the swords were drawn, but now he was as bold as a lion.
"There are whiles that I am of the same mind," said I. "The strange thing is that ye seem to have a kind of fancy for her too!" said Alan. "The biggest kind, Alan," said I, "and I think I'll take it to my grave with me." "Well, ye beat me, whatever!" he would conclude. I showed him the letter with Catriona's postscript. "And here again!" he cried.
Whereupon I arranged with him that he was to communicate with me, as to his whereabouts and Catriona's welfare, in consideration of which I was to serve him a small stipend. He heard the business out with a great deal of eagerness; and when it was done, "My dear fellow, my dear son," he cried out, "this is more like yourself than any of it yet! I will serve you with a soldier's faithfulness "
Her family, I remembered, had remarked on Catriona's eyes and even named her for their colour; and she herself had been much in the habit to address me with a broad pronunciation, by way of a sniff, I supposed, at my rusticity. No doubt, besides, but she lived in the same house as this letter came from.
As for the cobbler, he was 'over the hills ayout Dumblane, and it's thought that poor Scotland will have to console herself without him. I drank Catriona's health this night in public. Indeed, the whole town admires her; and I think the beaux would wear bits of her garters in their button-holes if they could only get them.
"There are whiles that I am of the same mind," said I. "The strange thing is that ye seem to have a kind of a fancy for her too!" said Alan. "The biggest kind, Alan," said I, "and I think I'll take it to my grave with me." "Well, ye beat me, whatever!" he would conclude. I showed him the letter with Catriona's postscript. "And here again!" he cried.
Her family, I remembered, had remarked on Catriona's eyes, and even named her for their colour; and she herself had been much in the habit to address me with a broad pronunciation, by way of a sniff, I supposed, at my rusticity. No doubt, besides, but she lived in the same house as this letter came from.
These friendly offers I must barbarously cast back; and my rejection sometimes wounded her so cruelly that I must unbend and seek to make it up to her in kindness. The base of my trouble was Catriona's extraordinary innocence, at which I was not so much surprised as filled with pity and admiration.
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