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He was but a doited snuffy body, Rab, as I've heard but then he was the town-clerk of Fairport, and the Monkbarns heritors aye employed him on account of their connection wi' the burgh, ye ken."
"Lord love you, miss, I am only a-feeling for your wings," returned Elizabeth in a droll voice, and then they both laughed, for this was a standing joke between them ever since Dinah had repeated poor old Becky Brent's speech, when the wrinkled hand of the blind and doited old creature had fumbled about her shapely shoulders. Dinah had been right in thinking that the vicar and Mr.
He was at first a farmer lad, but had forgathered with a doited tawpy, whom he married, and had offspring three or four.
"Hide yoursel," said he, "among the bushes." And I den't myself in a nook of the glen, where I overheard what passed. "I thought, Gideon," said the lad to him, "that ye would hae been at the conventicle this afternoon. We hae heard o't a'; and Carswell has sworn that he'll hae baith doited Swinton and Dunrod's leddy at Glasgow afore the morn, or he'll mak a tawnle o' her tower."
Then she rambled on to the Days that were gone, the good old Days, and so to the Days before the Flood which plainly showed her old head to be little better than crazed and doited. Day being ended, the Days called for their cloaks and great coats, and took their leaves.
Many of the Erisaig people would still be watching their setting-out; and was it to be supposed that they had taken this doited old body as one of the crew? But then Daft Sandy was at this moment clambering into the boat; and Rob could not get up and fight with an old man, who would probably tumble into the water.
He had a wife ance; she's dead and buried in Kilmorich; noo he's doited on his hame and his dochter " "The charming Olivia!" cried Count Victor, thinking in one detail at all events to surprise this little custodian of all the secrets. "Ye met her last night," said Mungo, calmly, seeming to enjoy the rapidity with which his proofs of omniscience could be put forth. "That's half the secret.
"But she couldn't keep to it. When papa fell ill, and she was unhappy, she went back. And then of course she made it up with her brother." The triumph in Mrs. Mason's face yielded first to astonishment, then to anger. "The poor weak doited thing," she said at last in a tone of indescribable contempt, "the poor silly fule! But naebody need ha' luked for onything betther from a Helbeck.
"Whisper?" resumed she in her shrillest note "why, they whisper loud enough for me at least to hear them, that the schoolmaster of Gandercleuch is turned a doited auld woman, and spends all his time in tippling strong drink with the keeper of the public-house, and leaves school and book-making, and a' the rost o't, to the care of his usher; and, also, the wives in Gandercleuch say, that you have engaged Paul Pattison to write a new book, which is to beat a' the lave that gaed afore it; and to show what a sair lift you have o' the job, you didna sae muckle as ken the name o't no nor whether it was to be about some Heathen Greek, or the Black Douglas."
It wudda frichten'd the very deevil himsel'. The stupid auld fule had gotten that doited that he cam' fleein' awa' wi' the bell in his hand. There was a cry o' fire, and a scream o' murder, an' in half a meenit the hotel was as busy as gin it had been broad daylicht. Sandy forgot hoo mony stairs he had to clim', and he gaed bang in on an auld sea captain an' his wife, in the room below oors.
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