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"Haud yer tongue, mem, gien ye please. I canna bide to hear my father spoken o' like that. For ye see I lo'ed him afore I kent he was ony drap 's blude to me." "Weel, that's verra weel; but father an' mither's man and wife, an' ye camna o' a father alane."
I winna say, mother, 'at I lo'ed him sae weel as ye lo'ed him, for maybe that wudna be natur I dinna ken; and I daurna say 'at I lo'e him as the bonny man lo'es his brithers and sisters a'; but I hae yet to learn hoo to lo'e him better. Onygait, the bonny man wantit him, and he has him!
"Hout tout, man! let that flee stick in the wa'," answered his kinsman; "when the dirt's dry it will rub out Your father, honest man, could look ower a friend's fault as weel as anither." "Ye may be right, Robin," replied the Bailie, after a moment's reflection; "he was a considerate man the deacon; he ken'd we had a' our frailties, and he lo'ed his friends Ye'll no hae forgotten him, Robin?"
"'Jamie, you know how I lo'ed an' trusted him, an' obeyed his ain wishes in comin' out to this strange country to be his wife. But 'tis all over now, and she pressed her sma' hands tightly over her breast to keep doon the swelling o' her heart. 'Jamie, I know now that it is a' for the best; I lo'ed him too weel mair than ony creature sud lo'e a perishing thing o' earth.
Yet, in his one year of brilliance, he won immortal love. Scott had seen strong men, the prince's ancient comrades, weep at the mention of his name. No man, in any age, ever inspired such a large, such a gallant, such a tender and melancholy body of song. Even now as one hears the notes of "Will ye no come back again, Better lo'ed ye canna be,"
Then he concluded, as was his inviolate custom, with a reference to Burns, in whom he had sat down and risen up for forty years: "I canna better close what I hae to say," he assured me, "than by the use o' the plowboy's words, slightly changed for the occasion: "'Better lo'ed ye canna be Will ye no' abide at hame?" David Carrick was the next to speak.
'He sent me forty dollars to bring me ower the sea to him God bless him for that, I ken he worked hard to earn it, for he lo'ed me then I was na' idle during his absence.
"And I'm some doobtfu' forbye, whether I mayna be tryin' to ripe oot the stockin' frae the wrang en' o' 't. I doobt the fau't's nae sae muckle i' my temper as i' my hert. It's mair love that I want, Tibbie. Gin I lo'ed my neebor as mysel', I cudna be sae ill-natert till him; though 'deed, whiles, I'm angry eneuch at mysel' a hantle waur nor at him." "Verra true, Thamas," answered Tibbie.
An' gin ye find 'im lyin' canny, an' ye tak' a keek into 'is bonny brown een, ye can see he's aye greetin'. An' so, ye didna ken why, but ye a' lo'ed the lanely wee " "Bobby!" It was an excited breath of a word from the wide-eyed bairns. "Bobby! Havers! A bittie dog wadna ken what to do wi' keys." But Glenormiston was smiling, and these sharp witted slum bairns exchanged knowing glances.
"If you think that would have weighed with Andrew, I ought to have been his wife, for I know him better than you." Dawtie smiled at that. "But I do know, mem," she said, "that Andrew was fit to cast the lairdship frae him to comfort ony puir lassie. I would ha' lo'ed him a' the same." "As I have done, Dawtie," said Alexa, solemnly.
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