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Ane o' the thieves cries, "Oh, I hae fand a bonnet!" and Jock, on hearing that, cries out, "Oh, that's mine!" They thocht they had got the deil on their backs. So they let a' fa' in the burn; and Jock, being tied in the plaid, couldna get out; so he and the bees were a' drowned thegither. If a' tales be true, that's nae lee.
The crown, says he, canna be craved to prove a positive was't a positive or a negative they couldna be ca'd to prove? it was the tane or the tither o' them, I am sure, and it maksna muckle matter whilk. Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the panel proving her defences. And it canna be done otherwise."
"Ay, ye say that sittin' there," Hookey said; "but, lads, I saw his face, an' as sure as death it was sic an' awfu' meeserable face 'at I couldna but pu' the powny up. Weel, he stood for the space o' a meenute lookin' straucht at me, as if he would like to come forrit but dauredna, an' syne he turned an' strided awa ower the muir like a huntit thing.
"Oh, sir," repeated Caleb again, "you would but laugh if I tauld it; but Thomas the Rhymer, whose tongue couldna be fause, spoke the word of your house that will e'en prove ower true if you go to Ravenswood this day. Oh, that it should e'er have been fulfilled in my time!" "And what is it, Caleb?" said Ravenswood, wishing to soothe the fears of his old servant.
I was feelin' blue enow when it came time for lunch, but I couldna do less than ask Munroe if he'd ha' bit and sup wi' me, after the kindness he'd shown me. We went into a restaurant in the Strand. I was no hungry; I was tae sair at heart, for it lookit as if I maun gang hame and tell the wife my first trip to London had been a failure.
"I couldna help hearing, Effie." "No; I know, dear. But it's not to be spoken about. You must forget it." "Did Mrs Nesbitt want it too?" asked Christie. "I don't know. Mrs Nesbitt is very kind; but you mustna say anything to her about this matter or to any one. Promise me, Christie."
"My dear, she kenned she couldna come, and it was as well to put that face on it. But she would gladly come now, if I had a home to give her." There was silence for a while, and then Graeme said, "It's selfish in me, I know, but, oh! Janet, we have been so happy lately, and I canna bear to think of changes coming."
It was awfu'. I think I hear the noise o' the crashing plates and bowls in my lugs yet." "Deil may care! Let them tak it!" replied Mrs. Callender, endeavouring to assume a disregard of consequences, which she was evidently very far from feeling. "She was aye owre vain o' her crockery; so that better couldna happen her."
"I fell down beside o' th' poor crushed wench an' sobbed wi' her. I couldna comfort her, for wheer wur there any comfort for us? Theer wur none left theer wur no hope. We was shamed an' broke down our lives was lost. Th' past wur nowt th' future wur worse.
"It sticks til him only in sic minds as never saw the lovely greatness o' God." "But sic bairns come na intil the warl as God wad hae them come!" "But your bairnie is come, and that he couldna withoot the creatin wull o' the Father!
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