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Katie's dairy, so long talked of and planned for, was in use now, though it was not quite finished to her mind yet. Davie made use of his spare minutes on rainy days to add to its conveniences. In the meantime it was clean and cool.
Phœbe explained how kind his mother had been, how she understood what little girls like to do, how she had promised to be Mother Bab. "You don't care, Davie, you ain't jealous?" she ended anxiously. "Sure not," he assured her; "I think it's kinda nice, for she thinks you're a dandy. But did they haul you over the coals in there?"
Gradually it came back to him that something had happened. By this time breakfast was over, and worship, and Katie brought Mr Maxwell in and left him there. Jacob Holt would not stay to breakfast, though Davie and his mother had asked him to stay. Before he went he gave the squire's letter to Davie. "Give it to your grandfather, but do not read it," said he.
One of us two must have the rule while we are here together; it is most fit it should be I, who am both the man and the elder; and I give you that for my command." She dropped me one of her curtsies, which were extraordinary taking. "If you will be cross," said she, "I must be making pretty manners at you, Davie.
When the exciseman saw the empty bed he cried with an angry oath: "Here's the nest still warm; but the bird's awa'!" The "bird" had flown to a more hidden place of retirement under cover of the darkness! In later years Davie was not much molested by the representatives of the excise. A gauger was indeed stationed in a town ten miles distant, but he was elderly, and not over energetic.
When Maitland of Lethington was dismissed under suspicion of favouring the exiled Protestant lords, the Seigneur Davie succeeded him as her secretary; and now that Morton was under the same suspicion, it was openly said that the Seigneur Davie would be made chancellor in his stead.
"An' it's hot, too, it is," he continued, applying his kerchief again to his pate. "If it warn't for the ice we stand on, we'd be melted down, I do belave, like bits o' whale blubber." "Wot a jolly game football is, ain't it?" said Davie, seating himself on a hummock, and still panting hard. "Ay, boy, that's jist what it is.
I know I am all wrong " said he, with tears. "We will comfort one another. And indeed, it is my best comfort to comfort you. And, Davie, my love, we will begin anew."
The intercourse which took place betwixt the families at Beersheba and Woodend became strict and intimate, at a very early period, betwixt Reuben Butler, with whom the reader is already in some degree acquainted, and Jeanie Deans, the only child of Douce Davie Deans by his first wife, "that singular Christian woman," as he was wont to express himself, "whose name was savoury to all that knew her for a desirable professor, Christian Menzies in Hochmagirdle."
This was said by old Davie Cheyne to Nanny Clousta, about two weeks after Hilda and her husband had taken up their abode at the castle. "What Sir Marcus will say about the matter, it makes me tremble to think of. It's my belief he'll be inclined to pull the house down about our ears, or to send us and it flying up into the sky together.
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