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But he moaned in deprivation, craving her support, and she edged nearer to supply his need. Possessed with a devil or no, he was her son. "Mother!" gasped Janet suddenly, the white circles of her eyes staring from the red flannel, her voice hoarse with a new fear "mother, suppose suppose he said that before anybody else!" "Don't mention't," cried her mother with sudden passion.
She wanted to fling it on the back o' the fire, but I wouldna let her. That's it she has aneath her apron." Later in the day I remarked to Leeby that Jamie was very dull. "He's missed it," she explained. "Has any one mentioned it to him," I asked, "or has he inquired about it?" My mother's fleid to mention't, an' he doesna like to speak aboot it either." "Perhaps he thinks he has lost it?"
What I mean's this," hastily, as the Maitland temper showed dangerous indications of going into active eruption: "I s'pose yeh don't want me tuh mention't yeh're married, jes' yet? Mrs. Maitland here," with a nod to her, "didn't seem tuh take kindly tuh the notion of it's bein' known " "Hickey!" "Ah, excuse me!" "Drive on, cabby instantly! Do you hear?"
At first he lets on that he merely gangs in for a drink; what he really wants, however, is to see the girl. Even if he's no great toper to begin with, he must show himself fond o' the dram, as a means of getting to his jo. Then, before he kens where he is, the habit has gripped him. That's a gate mony a ane gangs." "That's verra true, now that ye mention't," gravely assented the ex-Provost.
"There's only ae way," said she, wiping her eyes; "there's just ae remedy for our case." "What is it, my love?" said the deacon. "I canna mention't," said the cunning wife. "It's against a' the high and proud feelins o' yer noble natur." "But we are sometimes obliged to sacrifice our feelins," said the gratified deacon. "Speak, my dear Margaret; ye ken wha ye're speakin to. What is your remedy?"
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