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Catanach had sought to stifle with the pillows and bed-clothes. When Malcolm returned he went at once to the piper's cottage, where he found him in bed, utterly exhausted and as utterly restless. "Weel, daddy," he said, "I doobt I daurna come near ye noo." "Come to her arms, my poor poy," faltered Duncan. "She'll pe sorry in her sore heart for her poy.
"Ye see the bridge hes been shaken wi' this winter's flood, and we daurna venture on it, sae we hev tae ford, and the snaw's been melting up Urtach way. There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's threatenin' tae rise, but we 'ill win through wi' a warstle.
I'm new in the sicht o' God an' He's new in mine an' I prayed this mornin', a thing I haena dune for mair than twenty years an' the auld burn was sweet an' clear, like when my laddie's lips sippit there lang syne I daurna speak His name ower often, but God is gey guid to the sinfu' an' the weary." "None but they can know how good," was my response.
It's jist the land o' Goshen, only it wants a wheen mair tap-dressin'." "Tak it frae the bank, than, Robert." "The bank! said ye, Marget? I canna do that." "And what for no?" "'Cause I'm jist like the hens, Marget. Gin they dinna see ae egg i' the nest, they hae no hert to lay anither. I daurna meddle wi' the bank." "Weel, lat sit than; an' lay awa' at yer leisur'. Hoo's the mistress?"
But the honest nature of him shrunk from deception, even where the object of it was good: he was not at liberty to use falsehood for the discomfiture of the false even; a pretended friendship was of the vilest of despicable things, and the more holy the end, the less fit to be used for the compassing of it least of all in the cause of a true friendship. "I canna help ye, mem," he said; "I daurna.
"It's plain to me that we must pairt, freen'," said Swankie in a dogged manner, as he lifted a keg out of the boat and placed it on the ground. "Ay," exclaimed Spink, with something of a sneer, "an' d'ye think I'll pairt without a diveesion o' the siller tea-pots and things that ye daurna sell for fear o' bein' fund out?"
"It's plain to me that we must pairt, freen'," said Swankie in a dogged manner, as he lifted a keg out of the boat and placed it on the ground. "Ay," exclaimed Spink, with something of a sneer, "an" d'ye think I'll pairt without a diveesion o' the siller tea-pats and things that ye daurna sell for fear o' bein' fund out?"
Other men shake their heads at him. He maun away to his club if he is to be respected. Does he get good dinners at the club? Oh, they cow! You get no common beef at clubs; there is a manzy of different things all sauced up to be unlike themsels. Even the potatoes daurna look like potatoes.
Come fill up my cap, come fill up my cann, Come saddle my horses, and call up my man; Come open your gates, and let me gae free, I daurna stay langer in bonny Dundee." "Whisht, sir!" said the magistrate, in an authoritative tone "lilting and singing sae near the latter end o' the Sabbath!
'A contuma-acious and stiff-necked generation, said the old man, walking off and shaking his head. 'And yet he's a fine laddie; a gra-and laddie wad he be with good guidance. It's the Lord's doing, nae doot, and we daurna fault it; it's wondrous in our een. That was the way old Mac always talked. Droll lingo, wasn't it? Well, away we went to this township.
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