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This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed for his son James, for the nature of his friendships and the character of the personages of whom he was engoué one after another. 'There's nae hope for Jamie, mon, he said to a friend. 'Jamie is gaen clean gyte. What do you think, mon?
On the 18th they set out from the capital, with the Parthian shot from Lord Auchinleck to a friend 'there's nae hope for Jamie, man; Jamie is gaen clean gyte. What do you think, man? He's done wi' Paoli. He's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a Corsican, and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, man?
The voices of two of Prestongrange's liveried men upon his doorstep recalled me to myself. "Ha'e," said the one, "this billet as fast as ye can link to the captain." "Is that for the cateran back again?" asked the other. "It would seem sae," returned the first. "Him and Symon are seeking him." "I think Prestongrange is gane gyte," says the second. "He'll have James More in bed with him next."
He next, looking joyously round, laid a grasp on his wig, which he perhaps would have sent after the beaver, had not Edie stopped his hand, exclaiming "Lordsake! he's gaun gyte! mind Caxon's no here to repair the damage."
On leaving at 11 o'clock we found the gate closed against us, as the porter was evidently unaware that visitors were being entertained. We were amused at the indignation of the London-bred butler, who, on coming to our rescue, cried with a perfect Cockney accent, "Gyte, gyte, yer don't lock gytes till visitors is off."
He next, looking joyously round, laid a grasp on his wig, which he perhaps would have sent after the beaver, had not Edie stopped his hand, exclaiming "Lordsake! he's gaun gyte! mind Caxon's no here to repair the damage."
"Here are women and men gane gyte wi' the tellin' o' death and murder and where is Dan McBride?" "There is nae murder that I ken," said I, "and the hogs are doing finely." I believe the man had clean forgot about the sheep. "Hogs," quo' he; "deil tak' the braxy beasts. Sir, where is Dan McBride?" and at that I told him. "And there's more yet," said I, for I had passed my word.
There's nae soberer man than me in my ordnar; but when I hear the wind blaw in my lug, it's my belief that I gang gyte." "You are a religious man," I replied, "and this is sin." "Ou," he returned, "if it wasna sin, I dinna ken that I would care for't. Ye see, man, it's defiance.
"He was an auld man when he married her, a fell auld man wi' a muckle voice you could hear him rowting from the top o' the Kye-skairs," she said; "but for her, it appears she was a perfit wonder. It was gentle blood she had, Mr. Archie, for it was your ain. The country-side gaed gyte about her and her gowden hair.
A little after he observed his son burning a paper which he thought should have been kept; and at that his excitement burst out so that it was painful to witness. He struck the lad repeatedly. "Are you gone gyte?"* he cried.
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