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Thrice was he carried back, kicking, to Ballingall's by urchins sent in pursuit, stern ministers of justice on the first two occasions; but on the third they made him an offer: if he would hide in Couthie's hen-house they were willing to look for him everywhere else for two hours.
Tommy was honestly anxious to save Grizel the pain of thinking that she had flouted a man who loved her. He took a different road from hers, but, to his annoyance, they met at Couthie's corner. He would have passed her with a distant bow, but she would have none of that. "You have followed me," said Grizel, with the hateful directness that was no part of Tommy's character. "Grizel!"
He thocht we was to hae sic a terrible rain that he implored the minister no to pray for it, and so angry was Mr. Dishart that he ordered the whole Session out o' the kirk. I saw them in Couthie's close, and michty dour they looked." "Yes, as sure as death, Tammas Whamond locked the kirk-door in Mr. Dishart's face." "I'm a' shaking! And small wonder, Marget, when I've heard this minute that Mr.
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