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"Do you know, you're the first man who has offered to do me a favor; you're the only one who hasn't tried to hold me back and climb over me. You're the first man I've seen with with a smile on his face." The speaker nodded. "I know! It's peety, too. Dese poor feller is scare', lak' you.
"Geranniums! ger havers, that's no' what Speug is after, you bet. Man, Bauldie, I peety Byles, I do. Peter'ill lose the lot o' them in the woods or he'ill stick them in a bog, or" and Jock could hardly hold his kite "what div ye say to this, man? he'ill row them over to Woody Island and leave them there till Monday, with naething but bread and milk and the net to sleep in."
"What is the raison," asked her husband, "that I see you an' Nanny Peety colloguin' an' huggermuggerin' so often together of late?" "Ah," she replied, with a toss of disdain, "what a manly fellow you are to want to get into women's saicrets! you may save your breath though." "Whatever you collogue about, all I say is, that I don't like a bone in the same Nanny Peety's body.
"Ah, Misther Burke," replied Peety, in a tone of gratitude peculiar to his class, "you're the ould* man still ever an' always the large heart an' lavish hand an' so sign's on it full an' plinty upon an' about you an' may it ever be so wid you an' yours, a chierna, I pray. An how is the misthress, sir?" * That is to say, the same man still.
Sae, speakin' as a guid Whig, an honest freen' to you, and an anxious freen' to my ainsel', the plain fact is that I think ye'll just have to bide here wi' Andie an' the solans." "Andie," said I, laying my hand upon his knee, "this Hielantman's innocent." "Ay, it's a peety about that," said he. "But ye see in this warld, the way God made it, we cannae just get a'thing that we want."
"Lord, hae peety upon us, for we a' luved him, and we were a' prood o' him." After the Doctor said "Amen" with majesty, one used to look at his neighbour, and the other would shut his eyes and shake his head, meaning, "There's no use asking me, for it simply can't be better done by living man." This time no one remembered his neighbour, because every eye was fixed on the Doctor.
Maitland was trying to cheer the old lady up when she said to him: 'Yon half backs, A'm thinkin'' she was a soccer fan in the old land, I believe 'yon half backs, A'm thinkin', are gey confident. It is a peety they cudna be shaken a bit in their nerves. By Jove! Maitland jumped at it. 'Mrs. McNish, you're right! you're right. I wonder I did not think of it before."
Hycy, having bade him good night at the hall-door, returned again to the parlor, and called Nanny Peety "Nanny," said he, "which of the Hogans did you see to-day?" "None o' them, sir, barrin' Kate: they wor all out." "Did you give her the message?" "Why, sir, if it can be called a message, I did." "What did you say, now?"
The features, neck, and bosom of the girl, on receiving this communication, were overspread with one general blush, and she stood, for a few moments, irresolute and confused. In the mean time Peety had passed on, and after a pause of a few minutes, she looked at the letter more attentively, and slowly broke it open.
"Have you seen Annie Anderson to-day, Mr Bruce?" asked his mother. "'Deed no, mem. She doesna aften trouble huz wi' her company. We're no gran' eneuch for her." "Hasn't she been here to-day?" repeated Mrs Forbes, with discomposure in her look and tone. "Hae ye tint her, mem?" rejoined Bruce. "That is a peety. She'll be awa' wi' that vaigabone, Willie Macwha. He was i' the toon last nicht.
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