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I said to him, calling Richard by the name he's been goin' by, I said, 'Whaur's Robert Kater? He jumped up an' began figitin' aboot the room, settin' me a chair an' the like, an' I asked again, 'Is this the pentin' room o' Robert Kater? an' he said, 'It was his room, yes. Then he asked me was I any kin to him, an' I told him, did he think I would come walkin' into his place the like o' that if I was no kin to him?
"Oh ay," said the old man, hastily scrambling into the little black boat lying beside the smack; "and it is no wonder to me this will come to you, sir, for I hef never seen any of the gentlemen so long at the pentin as you from the morning till the night; and it is no wonder to me this will come to you. But I will get you the whushky: it is a grand thing, the whushky."
Mackenzie himself, it wass he that did all the pentin of the boat; and it iss as well done as Mr. McNicol could have done it, and a great deal better than that mirover." "Won't you steer her yourself, Sheila?" her father suggested, glad to see that she was at last being interested and pleased. "Oh yes, I will steer her, if I have not forgotten all the points that Duncan taught me."
"An' noo whaur is Richard?" "He's awa' in Paris pentin' pictures. He went there to learn to be a penter." "An' whaur gat he the money to go wi'? There's whaur the new black silk dress went ye should ha' bought yersel' that year. Ye lat me think it went to the doctor. Child! Child!" "Yes, sister; I lee'd to ye. It's been a heavy sin on my soul an' ye may well thank the Lord it's no been on yer ain.
Men are vera masterfu' bodies. I made it up to him though, for I bided a day or twa at the hotel, an' went to the room, the pentin' room whaur I found him there was whaur he stayed, for he was keepin' things as they were, he said, for the one who was to come into they things Robert Kater had left there ye'll find oot aboot them whan ye read the letter an' I made it as clean as ye'r han' before I left him.
It was Robert Kater he called himsel'. So, there he's been pentin' pictures. Go, Hester, an' find yer son, an' I'll find Richard. Ellen, ye'll have to do wi' Tillie for a week an' a bit, I'm going to Paris to find Richard." "Ye'll do nae sic' thing. Ye'll find him by post." "I'll trust to nae letter the noo, Ellen. Letters aften gang astray, but I'll no gang astray." "Oh, child, child!
She had a'thing in fine order; it was a perfeck treat to sit doon; an' I noticed a braw noo pentin' o' the scone-baker hung abune the chumla. He maun hae left a fell feck o' bawbees, for I ashure ye his weeda has a fu' hoose, an' aye plenty to do wi'. Weel-a-weel, we had oor tea, as I was tellin' ye, an' a fine cup it was. Eh, it's a nice thing a cup o' fresh tea.
Well, I am all right now: it was the glare of the sea that made me giddy. Take a dram for yourself, Donald." Then he heaved a sigh, and wiped the top of the bottle with his sleeve. "Yes, as I was saying, sir, there was none of the gentlemen I hef effer seen in Tarbert will keep at the pentin so long ass you; and many of them will be stronger ass you, and will be more accustomed to it whatever.
McNicol waz dead, for he will be verra good at pentin a door, and he haz between fifteen pounds and ten pounds in the bank at Stornoway, and four cows too and a cart, and he is a ferra religious man, and has great skill o' the psalm-tunes, and he toesna get trunk now more as twice or as three times in the two weeks.
But fuss, do, fo' yer axes fur furgibness, yer mus' turn yer min's ter repintunce. Now I ax you chil'en dis, Is you sorry dat you runned off? an' is you 'pentin' uv wadin' in de ditch?" Uncle Rob spoke very slowly and solemnly, and in a deep tone; and Diddie, feeling very much as if she had been guilty of murder, replied, "Yes, I am truly sorry, Uncle Bob."
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