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"Ah, no, Denis! My mind is made up: I can never be your wife, Do you think that I would bring the anger of God upon myself, by temptin' you back from the holy office you're entering into? Think of it yourself Denis. Your feelings are melted now by our discoorse, and, maybe, because I'm near you; but when time passes, you'll be glad that in the moment of weakness you didn't give way to them.
At first we thought them distant relations coming to the wake, but when I saw only one woman among the set, and she mounted on a horse, I began to suspect that all wasn't right. I accordingly turned back a bit, and walked near enough without their seeing me to hear the discoorse, and discover the whole business.
"'Peace, Pether, and let me discoorse him. Don't ye know that when I sent ye for the dues of the church, ye was engaged in its sarvice, in holy ordhers, as it were? And how comes it, then, that you come back without the pig, and looking as frighted as if Matthew Collins himself had come back? "'And so he has masther, dear, said the poor boy.
Drawing it suddenly tight, he hastily made it fast; but there was no occasion for haste, for the sleep of the man was so profound that the action did not awake him. "Hall right fus' rate," said the Bloater aloud, as he wound the rope round and round Sparks, so as to make him doubly secure. "Nothin' could be better. Now, Jim, I'm goin' for to preach a sermon to-night a sort o' discoorse.
"Come, Masther, by the hand o' my body, I don't like dhry talk so long as I can get anything to moisten the discoorse. Here's your health, Masther," continued the farmer, winking at the rest, "and a speedy conclusion to what you know! In throth, she's the pick of a good girl not to mintion what she has for her portion.
It seems absurd that so many of us should assemble here just to look solemn for a few minutes and then go home." "Yes, sir, it iss akward," said the elder. "Could you not gif us a discoorse yoursel', sir, from the prezenter's dask?" The latter part of the proposition was to guard himself from the imputation of having asked the laird to mount the pulpit.
"Juist when he wes speakin' aboot Zaccheus as nice as ye please though whether he was up the tree or doon the tree a' cudna for the life o' me tell he stops sudden and looks at us ower the top o' his spectacles, which is terrible impressive, and near dis instead o' speakin. "We will now come to the third head of this discoorse.
When I expressed my conviction that even the most experienced hearer was helpless in such circumstances, Elspeth rallied, and gave me to understand that she had saved some fragments from the wreckage. "A'll juist tell ye the hale hypothic, for sic a discoorse ye may never hear a' the days o' yir life.
"Ah, Neal," said the schoolmaster, "you are tempting destiny; your temerity be, with all its melancholy consequences, upon your own head." "Come," said the tailor; "it wasn't to hear you groaning to the tune o' 'Dhrimmindhoo, or 'The old woman rockin' her cradle, that I came; but to know if you could help me in makin' out the wife. That's the discoorse."
"Why, you said nothin' about widow Murray raisin' a head-stone over our child. You kept me in the dark there, Frank, an' sich a start I never got as I did this mornin', in the grave-yard beyant." "Upon my sowl, Owen, it wasn't my fau't, nor any of our fau'ts; for, to tell you the thruth, we had so much to think and discoorse of last night, that it never sthruck me, good or bad.
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