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His sons went about their own business; and he used to say that though they might help him in the way of money nows and thens, it was from his two lasses that he had the most comfort. Bessie waited till I was grown up and at service in a good place, where I pleased the mistress, before she married Willie.
We imagine that all those nows are rushing past us. Really, they're standing still, and our consciousness is whizzing past them." His father thought that over for some time. Then he sat up. "Hey!" he cried, suddenly.
"We've lotted on ye a good deal, here to the village; more maybe than you thought on. I I'll miss ye consid'able, off and on, ye see, off and on. You'll think about us nows and thens, won't ye, Bub?" "Oh, yes, indeed!" cried little John, eagerly. "I shall think of you a great, great deal, Mr. Bill Hen!
"Oh, you're one of that sort that's always thinking what they ought, are you? That's all very well in the main; but, dear heart! one wants a bit of what one would like by nows and thens." "One gets that best by thinking what one ought," said Elizabeth. "Ay, but it's all to come sometime a long way off; and how do I know it'll come to me?
So Mae appeared very careless and played she did not see him at all, at all. Yet she could not resist looking up now and then for one of the rare smiles. They seemed like very far between "nows and thens" to Mae, averaging possibly a distance of four minutes apart. But that is as one counts time by steady clock-ticks, and not by heart-beats. Meanwhile, what could she do with her eyes?
And look at what she has done for this house. I kenna what we should do if she didna come in nows and nans." "You ken well, Aaron," they said, "that onything we could do in the way o' keeping your house in order we should do gladly." "Thank you," he replied ungraciously, "but I would rather have her."
Answer me, Lady Marguerite." "Father, you are sore hard. Think you God, that is up in Heaven, taketh note of a white lie or twain, or a few cross words by nows and thens? not to name a mere wish that passeth athwart man's heart and is gone?" "God taketh note of sin, daughter. And sin is sin it is rebellion against the King of Heaven.
"Eleanor's not always in a good temper," said Bertha doubtfully. "She's best o' t'other lot," said old Dan. "She's none so bad, by nows and thens. I shall do rarely, thou'll see. But, Avice dost thou think thou could just creep off like at th' lee-side o' th' house, wi' the little maid, afore She sees thee? When thou'rt gone I'll tell her, and then I'll have a run for't till it's o'er.
She'll be better off a deal wi' thee, and she can see our Emma every day then. So dry thy eyes, little un; it'll be all right, thou sees." "But, Father, you'll not do without me!" "Don't thee be conceited, lass." Old Dan was trying hard to swallow a lump in his throat. "I'll see thee by nows and thens. Thou'll be a deal better off. And there's there's El'nor."
And, indeed, the place had many things to recommend it. Among the chief it was within an easy distance of the Red Lion, farther up the street, to which it was really very convenient to adjourn nows and nans. Standing at the Bend o' the Brae, too, you could look along two roads to the left and right, or down upon the Cross beneath, and the three low streets that guttered away from it.
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