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"Ye can see our hoose frae't canna ye?" "Ay." "Weel, ye jist buy a twa three blue lichts. Hae ye ony bawbees?" "Deil ane, General." "Hae than, there's fower an' a bawbee for expenses o' the war." "Thank ye, General." "Ye hae an auld gun, haena' ye?" "Ay have I; but she's nearhan' the rivin'." "Load her to the mou', and lat her rive. We'll may be hear't. But haud weel oot ower frae her.
Once the Auld Lichts held property in the square, but other denominations have bought them out of it, and now few of them are even to be found in the main streets that make for the rim of the cup. They live in the kirk wynd, or in retiring little houses, the builder of which does not seem to have remembered that it is a good plan to have a road leading to houses until after they were finished.
The last of the gallants, gradually discovering that he was alone, would look around him musingly, and, taking in the situation, slowly wend his way home. On no other night of the week was frivolous talk about the softer sex indulged in, the Auld Lichts being creatures of habit who never thought of smiling on a Monday.
He respected Gavin, however, too much to find this new dish palatable, and so his researches to discover whether other Auld Lichts shared Rob's fears were conducted with caution.
As Auld Lichts do not walk abroad on the Sabbath, Sanders would probably not be delayed. The chances were in his favour. Had it been any other day in the week Sam'l might have run. So some of the congregation in the gallery were thinking, when suddenly they saw him bend low and then take to his heels.
I kenna whaur I 'm gaein' till. Eh, gien he wad but come oot an' shaw himsel'! O Lord! tak the deevil aff o' my puir back. O Father o' lichts! gar him tak the hump wi' him. I hae nae fawvour for 't, though it 's been my constant companion this mony a lang." But in general, he only moaned, and after the words thus heard or fashioned by Malcolm, lay silent and nearly still for an hour.
While the service was taking place a huge clod of snow slipped from the roof and fell right against the church door. It was some time before the prisoners could make up their minds to leave by the windows. What the Auld Lichts would have done in a similar predicament I cannot even conjecture. That was the first warning of the thaw.
Gavin was in a quandary. I suppose he had looked at her eyes too long to know much about them. "Blue," he guessed at last. "Na, they're black," said Nanny, who had doubtless known this for an hour. I am always marvelling over the cleverness of women, as every one must see who reads this story. "No but what they micht be blue in some lichts," Nanny added, out of respect to the minister.
He spoke but one word when she took him by the hand to lead him to the room where her cousin used to sleep: "Father o' lichts!" he said, and no more. Malcolm put him to bed, where he lay perfectly still, whether awake or asleep they could not tell. He then set out to go back to Lossie House, promising to return after he had taken his grandfather home, and seen him also safe in bed.
This was position one with him for thinking things over. Few Auld Lichts, as I have said, went the length of choosing a helpmate for themselves. One day a young man's friends would see him mending the washing tub of a maiden's mother. They kept the joke until Saturday night, and then he learned from them what he had been after.
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