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Updated: June 7, 2025
'Ye haena telt 's yet, Cocker, he said, 'what that maister o' yours is duin' here at this time o' the year. I wad ken that, gin ye please. 'How should I know, Mr. MacGregor? returned the factor, taking no notice of the offensive manner in which the question was put. 'He's no a hair better nor ane o' thae Algerine pirates 'at Lord Exmooth's het the hips o' and that's my opingon.
But he did not get better so fast as he expected, and the only condition on which Grannie would consent not to send for the doctor, was, that Agnes should go and tell his father. "But eh, Aggie!" said Cosmo, "dinna lat him think there's onything to be fleyt aboot. It's naething but a gey knap o' the heid; an' I'm sure the maister didna inten' duin me ony sarious hurt.
"An' gien I had taen the disgrace ye offert me, ye wad hae drawn back?" "No, certainly." "Ye wasna tryin' me than: ye was duin' yer best to corrup' me." "I 'm no splitter of hairs." "My lord, it 's nane but the corrup'ible wad seek to corrup'." The marquis gnawed a nail or two in silence. Miss Horn dragged an easy chair within a couple of yards of him.
He dried his eyes; not another sob even broke from him; he gave one look, but no word of gratitude, to Miss St. John; bade her good-bye; and walked composedly into his grandmother's parlour, where the neck of the violin yet lay upon the fire only half consumed. The rest had vanished utterly. 'What are they duin' doon at the fact'ry, grannie? he asked.
He hesitated. "Ye didna loe me eneuch," said Aggie, looking up in his face. "Aggie," returned Cosmo, "I'm ready to merry ye the morn gien ye'll hae me!" "There noo!" exclaimed Aggie, in a sort of provoked triumph, "didna I tell ye! There ye are, duin' 't a' ower again! Wasna I richt? Ye're fit to tak care o' onybody but yersel' an' the lass 'at wad fain hae ye!
We've got ter du it," said one of the older men, rising from a chest, at this point. "What's it duin' outside, mate?" "Raining," I said. "You'll want your oilskins." I hesitated a moment before going on deck again. From the bunk forrard among the shadows, I had seemed to hear a faint moan. "Poor beggar!" I thought to myself. Then the old chap who had last spoken, broke in upon my attention.
Ye'll please me best by no wantin to please me; and ye'll please God best by duin what he's putten intil yer hert as the richt thing, and the bonny thing, and the true thing, though ye suld dee i' the duin o' 't. Tell me what ye're thinkin o' duin. 'What but gaeing efter this new commission they hae promised me?
The tears rose in her eyes, and her voice trembled: "It canna be helpit; I maun gang," she said. Cosmo was dumb for many moments; he had never thought of such a possibility; and Aggie stood silent before him. "What hae ye i' yer heid, Aggie? What thoucht ye o' duin' wi' yersel'?" he asked at length, his heart swelling so that he could scarcely bring out the words.
I think whiles, gien bairns kenned the terrible wyte their fathers micht hae to dree for no duin better wi' them, they wud be mair particlar to hand straucht. I hae been ower muckle taen up wi' my beasts and my craps mair, God forgie me! nor wi' my twa bairns; though, he kens, ye're mair to me, the twa, than oucht else save the mither o' ye!
Joseph was the first to speak: still rocking himself with hopeless oscillation, he said, in a strange muffled tone which seemed to come from somewhere else "Gien I kent she was weel deid I wadna care. It 's no like a father to be sittin' here, but whaur 'll I gang neist? The wife thinks I micht be duin' something: I kenna what to du. This last news is waur nor mane. I hae maist nae faith left.
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