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Updated: May 10, 2025
But I'm just thinking his lairdship will na care onything about it ony langer, sin' his son is weel married to yoursel', me leddy." "The earl liked his son's marriage, then?" inquired Claudia, for upon this point she felt anxious for authentic information. "Aye, did he! didna it keep the lad out o' danger o' the wiles o' siccan a quean as yon?
They walked together to church and home again as happy as two boys let out of school home to their poor dinner of new potatoes and a little milk, the latter brought by Aggie with her father's compliments "to his lairdship," as Grizzle gave the message. What! was I traitor bad enough to call it a poor dinner? Truth and Scotland forgive me, for I know none so good!
Malcolm had never in his life been so far from the coast before: his road led southwards into the heart of the country. The father of the late proprietor of Kirkbyres had married the heiress of Gersefell, an estate which marched with his own, and was double its size, whence the lairdship was sometimes spoken of by the one name, sometimes by the other.
If your lairdship will come your ways hame at ance, you will find the sinful pair in me leddy's boudoir." The note had neither name nor date.
The lan' 's his lordship's bought and paid for, an' I hae no more richt ower 't nor Jeames Gracie's colley here, puir beast!" "Ye may be richt aboot the lan', laird, the mair's the pity!" answered Grizzie; "but the futpath, beggin' the pardon o' baith lairdship and lordship, belangs to me as muckle as to aither o' ye.
With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score, Lillibulero, &c. 'But come, Bailie, be not cast down; drink your wine with a joyous heart; the Baron shall return safe and victorious to Tully-Veolan, and unite Killancureit's lairdship with his own, since the cowardly half-bred swine will not turn out for the Prince like a gentleman.
"An'it please your lairdship, there are twa poleecemen downstairs, wi' a posse at their tails," answered the old man, bowing humbly. "What is their business here?" "I dinna ken, me laird." "Something about that stupid murder, I suppose." Faustina started; she was probably thinking of Katie. "I dinna think it is onything connected wi' Ailsie's death, me laird." "What then?
I have heard their communings so often tauld ower that I almost think I was there mysell, though I couldna be born at the time. "I wuss ye joy, sir, of the head seat and the white loaf and the brid lairdship.
"Weel, laird I winna say FEART, for I never saw yer lairdship" she had got into the way of saying LORDSHIP, and now not unfrequently said LAIRDSHIP! "feart afore bull or bully, but I cud weel believe ye wadna willin'ly anger ane 'at the Lord lats gang up and doon upo' the earth, whan he wad be far better intil't, ristin' in 's grave till the resurrection only he was never ane o' the sancts!
Only old Richard Clelland of the Boreland, grave and wise pillar of the kirk by law established, still transacted her market business and banked her siller being, as he often said, proud to act as "doer" for so fair a principal. So it happened that all the reins of government about this tiny lairdship of one farm were in the strong and capable hands of a girl of twenty.
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