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"It's it's when the bonny Queen comes an' ye gie her the keys to the burgh gates that are no' here ony mair." Tammy, being in Heriot's, was a laddie of learning. "Weel done, laddie. Lang syne there was a wa' aroond Edinburgh wi' gates in it."
'Twenty years! echoed Miss Levering. 'Always arriving "after the train's gone," after the girl and the wrong person have got to the journey's end. Mrs. Heriot's eyes flashed, but before she could speak Jean asked 'Where is she now? 'Never mind. Lady John turned again to the plan. 'Two nights ago she was waiting at a street corner in the rain. 'Near a public-house, I suppose? Mrs.
Laddies dropped from the wall and hunted over Heriot's Hospital grounds to Lauriston market.
And Sir Percy himself was surprised at the marvellous way in which he had caught the very inflection of Heriot's voice. "Hey, Rondeau!" came from one of the players at the table, "the citizen- deputy is calling you!" They were all sitting round the table: two men intent upon their game of dominoes, the other two watching with equal intentness. Rondeau came shuffling out of the antichambre.
'We can't pretend to have access to such sources of information as Miss Levering. 'Yes, you can' she met Mrs. Heriot's eye 'for I can give you access. As you suggest, I have some personal knowledge about homeless girls. 'Well, my dear' with a manufactured cheerfulness Lady John turned it aside 'it will all come in convenient. She tapped the plan. Miss Levering took no notice.
On my return into the school, I found it in a convulsion of excitement, owing to Heriot's sending Boddy a challenge to fight a duel with pistols. Mr. Rippenger preached a sermon to the boys concerning the unChristian spirit and hideous moral perversity of one who would even consent to fight a duel.
But what seems to have moved her most was the magnificent view, which included the rich Lothians and the silver shield of the Frith, and stretched, but only, when the weather was fine enough, in the direction of Stirlingshire, to the round-backed Ochils and the blue giants, the Grampians, while at her feet lay the green gardens of Princes Street and the handsome street itself once the Nor' Loch and the Burgh Muir Allan Ramsay's house and Heriot's Hospital, or "Wark," the princely gift of the worthy jeweller to his native town.
She led him to talk in the gentlest way possible of how the rain had refreshed her flowers, and of this and that poor rose. I could think of nothing but the darling letter, which had flashed out of sight as a rabbit pops into burrows. Boddy departed with a rose. 'Ah, Richie, she said, 'I have to pay to have you with me now. We walked to the summer-house, where she read Heriot's letter through.
Here, in the last century, an old Heriot's Hospital boy once harboured from the pursuit of the police. The Hospital is next door to Greyfriars a courtly building among lawns, where, on Founder's Day, you may see a multitude of children playing Kiss-in-the- Ring and Round the Mulberry-bush.
She has the making of a good woman a girl can see that; only she can't bear loneliness, and doesn't understand yet what it is to be loved by a true gentleman. Persons of that class can't learn it all at once. I was pained to see her in tears. Her figure was straight, and she spoke without a quaver of her voice. 'Heriot's an excellent fellow, I remarked. 'He is.
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