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O, my bairn, if no for your ain saul's sake, yet for my grey hairs" "Weel, mither," said Cuddie, interrupting her, "what need ye mak sae muckle din about it? I hae aye dune whate'er ye bade me, and gaed to kirk whare'er ye likit on the Sundays, and fended weel for ye in the ilka days besides.
It was, after a', a queer sicht, and, as may be supposed, I drew a haill crowd of bairns after me, bawling out, "Here's Willy M'Gee's monkey," and gi'eing him nits and gingerbread, and makin' as muckle of the cratur as could be; for Nosey was a great favourite in the town, and everbody likit him for his droll tricks, and the way he used to girn, and dance, and tumble ower his head, to amuse them.
"Praesently me an' her leddyship startit for the 'Brig o' Fochabers' pool. She cud be vera affauble whan she likit, I'll say that muckle for the dowager; an' me an' her newsed quite couthie-like as we traivellt. I saftened tae her some, I frankly own; but than my hert hardent again whan I thoucht o' the duty I owed tae Spey an' tae Leddy Carline.
But she clung to her brother's neighbourhood, she knew not why. "Will ye no gie's a kiss, Dand?" she said. "I aye likit ye fine." He kissed her and considered her a moment; he found something strange in her. But he was a libertine through and through, nourished equal contempt and suspicion of all womankind, and paid his way among them habitually with idle compliments. "Gae wa' wi' ye!" said he.
Gien I had loed a lad like Jock, wad I hae latten him gang for a screed o' ill words! They micht hae sworn 'at likit for me! I wad ha latten them sweir! Na, na! Cosmo's for Elsie's betters!" Elsie appeared no more in any field that season staid at Muir o' Warlock, indeed, till the harvest was over. But what a day was that Sunday to Cosmo!
"I was aye big and buirdly, ye maun understand; a bonny figure o' a woman, though I say it that suldna built to rear bairns braw bairns they suld hae been, and grand I would hae likit it! But I was young, dear, wi' the bonny glint o' youth in my e'en, and little I dreamed I'd ever be tellin' ye this, an auld, lanely, rudas wife! Weel, Mr.
"What's yon on the Bass?" says he. "On the Bass?" says grandfaither. "Ay," says Sandie, "on the green side o't." "Whatten kind of a thing?" says grandfaither. "There canna be naething on the Bass but just the sheep." "It looks unco like a body," quo' Sandie, who was nearer in. "A body!" says we, and we nane of us likit that.
And when I was a limber lad like yourself, I do think truly that once I might hae likit weel to hae been lot and part of siclike stir and hazard, and to see the bale-fires burn. "Bear with me a moment yet, and I'll have done. There is a hard question I would spier of you. I thought but ill of my kind in my younger days.
"That wad come till a trial o' brains, my lord," returned Malcolm; "an' ye dinna think I wadna hae the wit to speir advice an' what's mair, to ken whan it was guid, an' tak it! There's lawyers, my lord." "And their expenses?" "Who would see that you applied it properly?" "My ain conscience, my lord or Mr Graham, gien ye likit." "And how would you live yourself?" "Ow! lea' ye that to me, my lord.
"But hoo div ye ken, or, raither, what gars ye think that ye're no the first that I hae likit, Jess?" "Oh, I ken fine," said Jess, who was a woman of knowledge, and had her share of original sin. "But hoo div ye ken?" persisted Ebie. "Fine that," said Jess, diplomatically. "But tell us, Jess," said Ebie, who was in high good humour at these fascinating accusations.
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