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'Weel, I've enjoyed that, she said, pushing back from the table at last. 'I've eaten ye oot o' hoose and hame, but as yer ship's come in, it'll no' maitter. Tell me a' aboot it. 'Oh, there's no' much to tell, answered Teen, with a touch of her natural reserve. 'I've made a rich frien', that's a'. 'A man? asked Liz, with interest. 'No; a lady, replied Teen rather proudly.
"But ye'll be meanin' Cawmill o' Glenlyon," he went on with a smile. "It canna maitter muckle to him whether my gran'father forgie him or no, seein' he's been deid this hunner year." "It's not Campbell of Glenlyon, it's your grandfather I am anxious about," said Mrs Courthope. "Nor is it only Campbell of Glenlyon he's so fierce against, but all his posterity as well." "They dinna exist, mem.
But, for that maitter, it hedna thriven for mony a lang afore. An' there was a fowth o' awfu' stories reengin' the country, like ghaists 'at naebody cud get a grip o' as to hoo he had gotten the said siller, an' sic like the siller 'at naebody ever saw; for upo' that siller, as I tell ye, naebody ever cuist an e'e.
"Hoot toot mon, there's no use in making a secret of the maitter," returned the positive grenadier. "The soobject was discoosed after dinner yeesterday, and there was noobody preesent who didn't agree that if you had won her hairt you had geevin your own in exchange."
A feow minutes winna maitter muckle to the bailie bodies." There was something in Malcolm's address that pleased Lord Lossie the mingling of respect and humour, probably the frankness and composure, perhaps. He was not self conscious enough to be shy, and was so free from design of any sort that he doubted the good will of no one. "What's your name?" asked the marquis abruptly.
No!" and consignment of the constitution to a nameless locality. "A venture to suggest that a committee be appointed, consisting of Brothers Sykes, Macnamara and the chairman, wi' poors tae add, tae go into this maitter with Captain Maitland and report." It was a master-stroke.
She left the spurtle sticking in the porridge, and dropped into the laird's chair. "What's the maitter wi' ye, Aggie?" said Cosmo, hastening to her in alarm, for her face was now white, and her head was hanging down. "This is no to be borne!" she cried, and started to her feet. " Cosmo, I tellt ye a lee." "Aggie!" cried Cosmo, dismayed, "ye never tellt me a lee i' yer life."
Then Annie perceived that Curly looked earnest and anxious. "What do ye say, Curly?" she returned. "I hardly ken what I say, Annie, though I ken what I mean. And I dinna ken what I'm gaun to say neist, but they say the trowth will oot. I wiss it wad, ohn a body said it." "What can be the maitter, Curly?"�-Annie was getting frightened.�-"It maun be ill news, or ye wadna luik like that."
His father was the laird o' Gersefell an' for that maitter he's laird himsel' noo. "It seems clearing," said Florimel. "I doobt it's only haudin' up for a wee," returned Malcolm, after surveying as much of the sky as was visible through the bars; "but I do think ye had better run for the hoose, my leddy. I s' jist follow ye, a feow yairds ahin', till I see ye safe.
I maun be settin' out back the morn, if the Lord spares me." I mindit fine that the body wad tak nae drink like an honest man, but maun aye draibble wi' burn water, and noo he had got the thing on the brain. I never spak a word, for the maitter was bye ony mortal's aid. For lang he sat quiet. Then he lifts his heid and looks awa ower the grey sea. A licht for a moment cam intil his een.
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