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I tell ye I'll testify naething either ae gate or another. "O, Cuddie, man, laith wad I be they suld hurt ye," said old Mause, divided grievously between the safety of her son's soul and that of his body; "but mind, my bonny bairn, ye hae battled for the faith, and dinna let the dread o' losing creature-comforts withdraw ye frae the gude fight."
"Ay, he's living yet; but how lang he'll live however, dinna ye mind his coming and asking after you in the spring, and leaving siller?" "It may be sae, Magge I dinna mind it but a handsome gentleman he was, and his father before him. Eh! if his father had lived, they might hae been happy folk!
"He was a leal man to me," she answered with wistful eyes, "ay, he was a leal man to me but it wasna John I was thinking o'. You dinna ken what makes me greet so sair," she added, presently, and though I thought I knew now I was wrong. "It's because I canna mind his name," she said.
Softened by the proximity of the wonderful violin, and stung afresh by the boy's words as his conscience had often stung him before, for he loved his wife dearly save when the demon of drink possessed him, the tears rose in Elshender's eyes. He held out the violin to Robert, saying, with unsteady voice: 'Hae, tak her awa'. I dinna deserve to hae sic a thing i' my hoose.
Ah, here was misery deeper than any physical ill! The penny was his, a senseless thing; but, poor, old, sick, hameless and kinless, the little dog that loved and followed him "wasna his ain." To hide the huskiness in his own voice Mr. Traill relapsed into broad, burry Scotch. "Dinna fash yersel', man. The wee beastie is maist michty fond o' ye, an' ilka dog aye chooses 'is ain maister."
"I dinna ken," said the Bailie; "there's mair brandy than brains in Garschattachin's head this morning And I wadna, an I were you, Captain, rest my main dependence on the Hielandmen hawks winna pike out hawks' een.
"Gien she tries to come up, I'll hae to caw her doon," he said to himself, "an' I dinna like it, for she 's a wuman efter a', though a deevilich kin' o' a ane; but there's my leddy! I hae broucht her intill 't, an' I maun see her safe oot o' 't!" But if Mrs.
Noo, I judge that the Abbey o' Deer was just the marrow o 't, or the minister wadna hae said that. But when it was biggit, Lord kens, for I dinna. It was just as you see it, lang afore your honour was born, an' aiblins, as the by-word says, may be sae after ye're hanged. But that's neither here nor there.
At length his jaw fell, and with a sigh, the body parted from Dooble Sanny, and he went to God. His wife closed mouth and eyes without a word, laid the two arms, equally powerless now, straight by his sides, then seating herself on the edge of the bed, said, 'Dinna bide, Robert. It's a' ower noo. He's gang hame. Gin I war only wi' 'im wharever he is!
Malcolm began again, as if he had in the meantime been thinking over the question, and was now assured upon it, " the win' maun come frae yont the stars; for dinna ye min', laird? Ye was at the kirk last Sunday wasna ye?" The laird nodded an affirmative, and Malcolm went on.
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