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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Hoo daur ye bring sic a thing into my hoose? she said, roused by the apparent defiance of her grandson. 'Hoo daur ye, efter what's come an' gane? ''Cause Dooble Sanny's come and gane, grannie, and left naething but this ahint him. And this ane's mine, whase ever the ither micht be.
And Dooble Sanny, though not too religious to get drunk occasionally, was a great deal too religious to play his fiddle on the Sabbath: he would not willingly anger the powers above; but it was sometimes a sore temptation, especially after he got possession of old Mr. Falconer's wonderful instrument. 'Hoots, man! he would say to Robert; 'dinna han'le, her as gin she war an egg-box.
While the school-master was dwelling on the argument that he was pretty sure to gain a good bursary, and she would thus be relieved for four years, probably for ever, from further expense on his account, Robert entered. 'Whaur hae ye been, Robert? asked Mrs. Falconer. 'At Dooble Sanny's, answered the boy. 'What hae ye been at there? 'Helpin' him till 's bed. 'What's come ower him?
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!
He would pass his old music-master in the street with scarce a recognition, as if the bond of their relation had been utterly broken, had vanished in the smoke of the martyred violin, and all their affection had gone into the dust-heap of the past. Dooble Sanny's character did not improve. He took more and more whisky, his bouts of drinking alternating as before with fits of hopeless repentance.
When she entered, he laid his auld wife carefully aside, and stood in an expectant attitude. 'Mr. Elshender, I want to be at the boddom o' this, said Mrs. Falconer. 'Weel, mem, gang to the boddom o' 't, returned Dooble Sanny, dropping on his stool, and taking his stone upon his lap and stroking it, as if it had been some quadrupedal pet.
''Cause mony's the time I hae stud oot there i' the street, hearkenin'. Dooble Sanny says 'at ye play jist as gin ye war my gran'father's fiddle hersel', turned into the bonniest cratur ever God made. 'How did you get such a terrible cut? She had removed the hair, and found that the injury was severe. The boy was silent. She glanced round in his face.
Their supper arrived from below, and, each on one side of the fire, they ate the porridge, conversing all the while about old times for the youngest life has its old times, its golden age and old adventures, Dooble Sanny, Betty, &c., &c. There were but two subjects which Robert avoided Miss St. John and the Bonnie Leddy.
Lammie, and indeed to cast himself upon the kindness of the household generally, Robert went up to his room to release his violin from its prison of brown paper. What was his dismay to find not his bonny leddy, but her poor cousin, the soutar's auld wife! It was too bad. Dooble Sanny indeed! He first stared, then went into a rage, and then came out of it to go into a resolution.
And stranger still, he found himself, before he reached home, praying once more in his heart both for Dooble Sanny and for himself. From that hour a faint hope was within him that some day he might try again, though he dared not yet encounter such effort and agony.
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