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Updated: June 23, 2025
Now, get up, dear, get up. You have got me to do what no mortal livin' could bring me to but yourself. I suppose that's what made you send Nanse M'Collum for my staff?" "Nancy M'Collum! When?" "Why, a while ago. She tould me a quare enough story, or rather no story at all, only that you couldn't come, an' you could come, an' I was to give up my staff to her by your ordhers."
"Divil the word she'll let out o' the poor boy's lips," said the cook, with a fair portion of venom. Nanse made no reply, but laughed with a certain description of confidence, as she glanced sneeringly at the cook, who, to say the truth, turned her eyes with a fiery and impulsive look towards the ladle.
"Why, she says she will come, for all that, if she can; but she bid me take your stick from you, for a rason she has, that she'll tell yourself when she sees you." "Take my stick! Why Nanse, ma colleen baun, what can she want with my stick? Is the darlin' girl goin' to bate any body?" "Bad cess to the know I know, Lamh Laudher, barrin' it be to lay on yourself for stalin' her heart from her.
In short, I do not know, that in all the long epoch of my ministry, any individual body did more to improve the ways of the parishioners, in their domestic concerns, than did that worthy and innocent creature, Nanse Banks, the schoolmistress; and she was a great loss when she was removed, as it is to be hoped, to a better world; but anent this I shall have to speak more at large hereafter.
Why thin, the month's mether o' honey to you, soon an' sudden, how did you come round her at all?" "No matter about that, Nanse; but the family's bitther against me? eh?" "Oh, thin, in trogs, it's ill their common to hate you as they do; but thin, you see, this faction-work will keep yees asundher for ever. Now gi' me your stick, an' wait, any way, till you see whether she comes or not."
Now, the reader must know that a deadly jealousy lay between Nanse and the cook, quoad honest Barney, who, being aware of the fact, kept the hopes and fears of each in such an exact state of equilibrium, that neither of them could, for the life of her, claim the slightest advantage over the other.
Yes, you villain, Nanse M'Collum heard every word that passed between you and her in the grassy quarry; an' Ellen, your worship, can prove it too, if she's sent for." This had little effect on the magistrate, who at no time placed any reliance on Nell's assertions; he immediately, however, dispatched a summons for Nanse M'Collum.
And it will be your best way, for there's sure news come frae Loudoun, that him they ca' Bang, or Byng, or what is't, has bang'd the French ships and the new king aff the coast however; sae ye had best bide content wi' auld Nanse for want of a better Queen." Ratcliffe, who at this moment entered, confirmed these accounts so unfavourable to the Jacobite interest.
"It was," replied Barney; "at laste they say so." "And didn't yourself tell me," she proceeded, "that that same lonesome boreen is a common walk at night wid Master Harry?" "And so it is, Nanse," replied Barney: "but as for Misther Harry, I believe it's party well known, that by night or by day he may walk where he likes."
"Show me," said the miscreant, "what s to be done, life or purse an' here's your sort for both." "Come, then," said Nell, "by the night above us, we'll thry your mettle." "Never heed her," observed Nanse; "aunt, you're too wicked an' revengeful." "Am I?" said the aunt. "I tuck an oath many a year ago, that I'd never die till I'd put sharp sorrow into Lamh Laudher's sowl.
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