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The only break in the monotony came to the south on the border where stretched the rocky, desolate ridge. "No one wouldn't come here without an object," reasoned Pete to himself, as they began the ascent of the narrow, tortuous trail, "now, what in thunder could that objec' hev bin?" "Magnificent indeed!"
"Young man," said the swarthy comrade in a voice of considerable solemnity, "ye hae obviously mista'en your callin'. If you werena new to thae pairts, ye would ken that the things ye objec' to are quite common. Punishin' an' harryin' the rebels and fanatics Covenanters, they ca' theirsels has been gaun on for years ower a' the land.
"What splendid scenery!" exclaimed Charlie Considine, who was addicted to the pencil. "What glorious sport!" cried his former antagonist, Rivers, who was fond of the rod and gun. "And what aboot the Kawfirs and Bushmen?" asked Sandy Black, who, to use his own language, "could aye objec'." "Time enough to think of them when they appear," said Rivers.
She's an oonsanctifeed brute. I cudna think o' sellin' her like this." "Ow ay! lat them; I dinna objec'; gien only they ken what she's like afore they buy her," rejoined Malcolm. The factor burst out laughing. To his judgment the youth had spoken like an idiot. "We'll not send you to sell," he said. "Stoat shall go with you, and you shall have nothing to do but hold the mare and your own tongue."
As gien she had been a lady forsooth! I micht wi' jist as muckle sense objec' to bidin' wi' him mysel'! But Is' du what I like, an' lat fowk say 'at they like, sae lang as I'm na fule i' my ain e'en!" "I'm ower white, Mr. Gled, for you. Ow na! ye're no that, bonny doo." But by degrees Cosmo grew gently ashamed of himself that he had so addressed Agnes.
"`Thank you, Miss, said the boy, turnin' to Miss Di with a low bow, imitatin' Sir Richard's manner, I thought, as much as he could. "`Of course, continued the master, rather sharply, `I offer you this situation out of mere charity "`Oh! you do, do you? said the extraordinary boy in the coolest manner, `but wot if I objec' to receive charity?
"I wonder to hear you, bailie," said I; "I trust and hope no one will ever find me out of the way of justice; and to convince you that I can do a friendly turn, I'll no objec to gie you a' my influence free gratis, if ye'll gie Mr Pittle a lift into the kirk; for, to be plain with you, the worthy young man, who, as ye heard to-day, is no without an ability, has long been fond of Mrs Pawkie's cousin, Miss Lizy Pinky; and I would fain do all that lies in my power to help on the match."
"Really, Aunt Lucy, you needn't mind Habbakuk and Funnel they are so very well behaved. I have been debillerating whether I ought to bring in Pompey, because his hair streams out but he did look so cold and mis'rable, I thought you wouldn't objec'." At this moment a housemaid came up to say there were visitors in the drawing-room.
"Wal, the verdick of it was, after I'd laid into Ty, I went down to major with the five-dollar bill an' another atop of it, all I had in this livin' world 'An' ef that 's any objec', major, says I, a-wipin' of my eyes, 'it's all I c'n do.
"There's always somethin' to objec' to every minister; we ain't any of us perfect, and Mr. Peck's got his failin's; he hain't built up the church quite so much as some on 'em expected but what he would; and there's some that don't like his prayers; and some of 'em thinks he ain't doctrinal enough. But I guess, take it all round, he suits pretty well. It'll come out all right, Pauliny. You'll see."
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