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"Man, I've thocht o' makkin' up to Bell mysel'," said Pete Ogle. "Wid there be ony chance, think ye, Sam'l?" "I'm thinkin' she widna hae ye for her first, Pete," replied Sam'l, in one of those happy flashes that come to some men, "but there's nae sayin' but what she micht tak' ye to finish up wi'." The unexpectedness of this sally startled every one.
Sae ae auld hirpling deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way and offer me a pig, as he said, just to put my Scotch ointment in, and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them. And then the reird raise, and hadna these twa gentlemen helped me out of it, murdered I suld hae been, without remeid.
But I'm not sure what he said. The words went away." "When was it he asked you?" said Dawtie, sunk in thought. "The night but one before the trial," answered Alexa. "He micht hae ta'en you, then, i'stead o' me a lady an' a'. Oh, mem! do you think he took me 'cause I was in trouble? He micht hae been laird himsel'." "Dawtie! Dawtie!" cried Alexa.
I hae seen them cringe!... It is the auld laird, Gilian?" "No, Grandfather. You remember that the old laird was William. This is Mr. Alexander." "He that was always aff somewhere alane?" White Farm drew his mind together. "I see now! You're right. I remember." "I am coming to White Farm to-morrow, Mr. Barrow." "Come then.... Is Grierson slain?" "He's away in past time," said Gilian.
Then he remembered Geordie Twatt's misfortune, and had his little grumble out on this subject: "Boat and goods might hae been a total loss, no to speak o' the lives o' Geordie an' the four lads wi' him; an' a' for the sake o' liquor!" Margaret looked at the brandy bottle standing at her father's elbow, and, though she did not speak, the look annoyed Peter.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.*
It's an awfu' name. I made him my salutations, and complimented him upon his look of health; for I feared he had perhaps been ill. 'I'm in the body, he replied, ungraciously enough; 'aye in the body and the sins of the body, like yoursel'. Denner, he said abruptly to Mary, and then ran on to me: 'They're grand braws, thir that we hae gotten, are they no?
Sam'l saw with misgivings that there was something in it which was not a handkerchief. It was a paper bag glittering with gold braid, and contained such an assortment of sweets as lads bought for their lasses on the Muckle Friday. "Hae, Bell," said Sanders, handing the bag to Bell in an off-hand way as if it were but a trifle.
"Ay, lassie" the other people had left at Stirling, and the General fell back upon the past "there 's just one bonnier river, and that's the Tochty at a bend below the Lodge, as we shall see it, please God, this evening." "Tickets," broke in a voice with authority. "This is no the station, an' ye 'll hae to wait till the first diveesion o' yir train is emptied. Kildrummie?
"Thou art an honest lad, Frank," answered the old woman, "but e'en too good for thy trade; thy tender heart will get thee into trouble. I will see ye gang up Holborn Hill backward, and a' on the word of some silly loon that could never hae rapped to ye had ye drawn your knife across his weasand."
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