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But if the railway came hereaway I wager Gourlay would go down," he added, less in certainty of knowledge than as prophet of the thing desired. "I wager he'd go down, sirs." "Likely enough," said Sandy Toddle; "he wouldn't be quick enough to jump at the new way of doing." "Moar than that!" cried the Provost, spite sharpening his insight, "moar than that he'd be owre dour to abandon the auld way.
"I dinna ken what ye've been thinkin," said Nelly, after a considerable pause; "but I think they would need to hae a hantle patience that listen to your thoughts, for ye're unco lang o' coming out wi' them. But, whatever they are, ye needna hesitate sae muckle in tellin them to me, for I never telled a tale o' yours owre again in my life."
"Tut, tut, mon, what's come owre ye? Haven't we fine prospects in sight anent the summer?" "Ay, ay, Alec, it's true what ye say. But haven't we allus had fine prospects in sight? Tell me that. An' what have we got? I'll tell ye what we've got. We've got old age pilin' a-top of us; we've got stiff jints, an' rheumatiz a-plenty; an' we've got a cabin apiece.
"I need a new bannet," said Jock; "and I'm gaun owre to Abernethy for ane the morn's nicht but mind, Sandy, ye maunna tell Nell whar I am; and, if she happens to speer, ye can just say that I'm awa down to Auchtermuchty for a pickle snuff." "Aweel, aweel," said the other, "I can haud my tongue. But what need can there be for makin lees aboot it?
They spoke not a word; their minds were occupied in examining all around them, and, as I thought, ascertaining their own identity. Young as I was, had I been at ease, I could have enjoyed the extraordinary scene before me; but, alas! I was a partaker of all the feelings that were passing in their minds. At length they broke silence 'Willie, Willie, what's come owre us now? cried Peter.
"I dinna wonder ava at what ye say," responded Nelly. "If I were in your place, a' that troubles you would trouble me. But there's naebody without something to distress them; and we maun just look upon things o' that kind as a crook in our lot, a something that maun be borne. But, after a', woman, if the twa were to gang thegither, could ye no come owre here?
He's always hinging owre the counter talking till her, a cigarette dropping from his face, and a half-fu' tumbler at his elbow. When a young chap takes to hinging round bars, ae elbow on the counter and a hand on his other hip, I have verra bad brows o' him always verra bad brows, indeed. Oh oh, young Gourlay's just a goner! a goner, sirs a goner!"
"'Owre mony impose upon ye, my man, quoth she; 'and I hope naebody has been doing it the night, for I never saw ye come hame in this key, but that somebody had got ye to do something that ye was to repent afterwards.
Ay, and yet you'll see a beggar wretch, clad in tanterwallops rags is owre guid a word coming to Logie door, and looking as if she had the right to demand meal from me, merely because she has two at her feet and one in her arms. Such honourable gaberlunzies get no meal from me. My master was keen for the match; but the Nabob was shy of the white face.
'He cam to me o' the Hornside, whaur I sat weyvin my stockin, ower the bog on 's powny a richt bonny thing, and clever a new are he's gotten frae 's mither. And it's no the first time he's been owre there to see me sin' he cam hame! 'Whatfor gaed he there? That wasna the best o' places to gang ridin in! 'He kenned whaur he was likest to see me: it was me he wantit. 'He wantit you, did he?
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