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Updated: May 23, 2025
There was a mild sadness in the tone, a sort of "the world's in an awfu' state, but no doot it's a' for the best, an' I'm resigned to my lot, though I wadna objec' to its being a wee thing better, oo-ay," feeling in it, which told of much sorrow in years gone by, and of deep humility, for there was not a shade of complaint in the tone.
"Has the doctor been to see you, my dear granny?" inquired Flora, sitting down at the side of the box-bed, while Lucy seated herself on a stool and tried to pierce the gloom within. "Oo, ay, he cam' an' pood aff ma mutch, an' feel'd ma heed a' over, but he said nothin' only to lie quiet an' tak a pickle water-gruel, oo-ay."
"Oo-ay, ye'll be gawin' to read me a bit o' the book?" "I thought you would ask that; what shall it be?" "Oo, ye canna go wrang." Flora opened the Bible, and, selecting a passage, read it in a slow, clear tone, while the old woman lay back and listened with her eyes upturned and her hands clasped. "Isn't it grawnd?" said she, appealing to Lucy with a burst of feeling, when Flora had concluded.
"Oo-ay! we can only get ideas by seein' or readin'. It's a grawnd thing, travellin', but it's wonderfu' what readin' 'll do. My guid-man, that's deed this therteen year, ay, come Marti'mas, he wrought in Lunnon for a year before we was marrit, an' he sent me the newspapers reglar once a month ay, the English is fine folk. My guid-man aye said that."
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