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Updated: September 12, 2025
I mind when I had the headache, hoo a small steak " "Gae awa for the doctor, rayther," broke in Leeby. Jess started, for sufferers think there is less hope for them after the doctor has been called in to pronounce sentence. "I winna hae the doctor," she said, anxiously.
I do not know what Leeby said to Hendry when she got him beyond the manse gate, for I stayed behind to talk to the minister. As it turned out, the minister's wife did most of the talking, smiling good-humouredly at country gawkiness the while. "Yes," she said, "I am sure I shall like Thrums, though those teas to the congregation are a little trying.
Jess, however, was more curious; indeed, she would have been an omnivorous devourer of books had it not been for her conviction that reading was idling. Until I found her out she never allowed to me that Leeby brought her my books one at a time. Some of them were novels, and Jess took about ten minutes to each.
"Mebbe yer no?" said Leeby. "Ay, am I, but I can keep it secret. When we're in the hoose am juist richt fond o' ye." "Do ye love me, Jamie?" Jamie waggled his head in irritation. "Love," he said, "is an awful like word to use when fowk's weel. Ye shouldna speir sic annoyin' queistions." "But if ye juist say ye love me I'll never let on again afore fowk 'at yer onything to me ava."
Jess had been so terrified that she forgave him everything for sight of his face, and Hendry prayed for him at family worship with too much unction. But Leeby cried as if her tender heart would break. For a long time Jamie refused to look at her, but at last he broke down. "If ye go on like that," he said, "I'll gang awa oot an' droon mysel, or be a sojer."
"He had nae business, though," said Leeby, "to tell onybody." "He was a rale clever man, the doctor," Jess explained to me, "ay, he kent me as weel as though he'd gaen through me wi' a lichted candle. It got oot through him, an' the young billies took to sayin' to Jamie, 'Ye do love her, Jamie; ay, ye love her richt. The only reglar fecht I ever kent Jamie hae was wi' a lad 'at cried that to him.
Am sure if ye would tak mair after my father, it would be a blessin'. Look hoo cool he is." "Whaur is he, Leeby?" "Oh, I dinna ken. The henmost time I saw him he was layin' doon the law aboot something to T'nowhead." "It's an awfu' wy that he has o' ga'en oot withoot a word. I wouldna wonder 'at he's no bein' in time to meet Jamie, an' that would be a pretty business."
As sune as he was oot o' the hoose crying their names I sat up in my bed listenin'. Sune I heard speakin', an' in a minute Leeby comes runnin' in to me, roarin' an' greetin'. She was barefeeted, and had juist her nichtgown on, an' her teeth was chatterin'. I took her into the bed, but it was an hour afore she could tell me onything, she was in sic a state.
If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart. Leeby had no longer any excuse for bustling about. Everything was ready too soon. Hendry had been to the fish-cadger in the square to get a bervie for Jamie's supper, and Jamie had eaten it, trying to look as if it made him happier. His little box was packed and strapped, and stood terribly conspicuous against the dresser.
This time he kept to the appointed day, and the house was turned upside down in his honour. Such a polish did Leeby put on the flagons which hung on the kitchen wall, that, passing between them and the window, I thought once I had been struck by lightning.
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