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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Richt," said the barefoot boy; "wha're ye frae?" "The Leddy Montroymont," says Francie. "Ha'e, then!" says the stranger, and handed him a folded paper, and they stood and looked at each other again. "It's unco' het," said the boy. "Dooms het," says Francie. "What do they ca' ye?" says the other. "Francie," says he. "I'm young Montroymont. They ca' me Heathercat." "I'm Jock Crozer," said the boy.
She could neither be driven nor wiled into the parish kirk; as for taking the sacrament at the hands of any Episcopalian curate, and tenfold more at those of Curate Haddo, there was nothing further from her purposes; and Montroymont had to put his hand in his pocket month by month and year by year.
He is like that damnable monster Basiliscus, which defiles yea, poisons! by the sight." All which was hardly claratory to the boy's mind. Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to Francie. But this day Francie's heart was not in the fencing. "Sir," says he, suddenly lowering his point, "will ye tell me a thing if I was to ask it?" "Ask away," says the father.
The mad, raging, Presbyterian zealot of a wife at home made all of no avail; and indeed the house must have fallen years before if it had not been for the secret indulgence of the curate, who had a great sympathy with the laird, and winked hard at the doings in Montroymont. This curate was a man very ill reputed in the countryside, and indeed in all Scotland.
Crossing the braes, he hears the clatter of a horse's shoes, and claps down incontinent in a hag by the wayside. 'Montroymont, the curate said, 'the deil's in 't but I'll have to denunciate your leddy again. 'Deil's in 't indeed! says the laird. 'Man! can ye no induce her to come to the kirk? pursues Haddo; 'or to a communion at the least of it?
About the last Traquair and Ruthven marriage, it is the business of this book, among many other things, to tell. The Traquairs were always strong for the Covenant; for the King also, but the Covenant first; and it began to be ill days for Montroymont when the Bishops came in and the dragoons at the heels of them. He was heavily suspected of the Pentland Hills rebellion.
About the last Traquair and Ruthven marriage, it is the business of this book, among many other things, to tell. The Traquairs were always strong for the Covenant; for the King also, but the Covenant first; and it began to be ill days for Montroymont when the Bishops came in and the dragoons at the heels of them. He was heavily suspected of the Pentland Hills rebellion.
He is like that damnable monster Basiliscus, which defiles yea, poisons! by the sight. All which was hardly claratory to the boy's mind. Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to Francie. But this day Francie's heart was not in the fencing. 'Sir, says he, suddenly lowering his point, 'will ye tell me a thing if I was to ask it? 'Ask away, says the father.
And at this, with more agility than could have been expected, he got clear of the room and slammed the door behind him in the face of the pursuing curate. The next Lord's day the curate was ill, and the kirk closed, but for all his ill words, Mr. M'Brair abode unmolested in the house of Montroymont.
Crossing the braes, he hears the clatter of a horse's shoes, and claps down incontinent in a hag by the wayside. "Montroymont," the curate said, "the deil's in 't but I'll have to denunciate your leddy again." "Deil's in 't indeed!" says the laird. "Man! can ye no induce her to come to the kirk?" pursues Haddo; "or to a communion at the least of it?
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