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Thinkin it wasna advisable to slight a message o' sae pressin a nature, an' curious to ken wha it was that could be wantin me, an' what he could be wantin me for, I leaped down, resolvin to mak my legs, which were gay an' lang an' souple anes, save my distance, an' havin nae doubt they wad, critical as the case was.
I have heard my father say that the Duke of Cumberland was worth twenty of Willie Wallace. David Haggart. Ye had better sae naething agin Willie Wallace, Geordie, for, if ye do, De’il hae me, if I dinna tumble ye doon the craig. Fine materials in that lad for a hero, you will say. Yes, indeed, for a hero, or for what he afterwards became.
"Less than I might have had but mair, O far mair, than wad sink the stoutest brig e'er sailed out o' Fairport harbour! Didna somebody say yestreen at least sae it is borne in on my mind, but auld folk hae weak fancies did not somebody say that Joscelind, Countess of Glenallan, was departed frae life?"
But I maun hae a crack wi' Maister Graham, anent things twa or three, just to haud me straucht, for I'm jist girnin' at bein' sae regairdit by sic a Revelation. Gien she had been an auld wife, I wad ha'e only lauchen: what for 's that? I doobt I'm no muckle mair rizzonable nor hersel'! The thing was this, I fancy it was sae clear she spak frae no ill natur', only frae pure humanity.
They behoove to say that's its na the game that draws the young laird sae often to Ben Lone; but just Rab Cameron's handsome lass, Rose, and she is a handsome quean as I said before; but nae 'are to mak' the young master lose his head for a' that! Sae ye maun na beleiv' a word of it, me young leddy," said Dame Girzie. And she hastened to change the subject. "Ah! what a power beauty is!
Nor when he proposed to reckon with her for the lawin would she touch the money, but made him promise, when he came back, he would bide another night with her, hoping he would then be in better spirits, for she was wae to see so braw a gallant sae casten down, doless and dowie.
Sae I went to bid him a short Gude-by for we'll meet again in a few years at the maist and I found him sae glad and solemnly happy within sight o' the heavenly shore, that I tarried wi' him a few hours, and we ate and drank his last sacrament together. He dropped my hand wi' a smile at half-past six o'clock, and after comforting his wife and children a bit I turned my face hameward.
"Scoundrels!" said Morton; "why do they not make terms for all in the Castle?" "They are fear'd for denial o' quarter to themsells, having dune sae muckle mischief through the country; and Burley has hanged ane or twa o' them already sae they want to draw their ain necks out o' the collar at hazard o' honest folk's."
"It may hae been sae," rejoined Elspeth, "but your mother hated a' that cam of your father's family a' but himsell. Her reasons related to strife which fell between them soon after her marriage; the particulars are naething to this purpose. But oh! doubly did she hate Eveline Neville when she perceived that there was a growing kindness atween you and that unfortunate young leddy!
David Haggart. Just sae, Geordie. Myself. And why were ye thinking of him? The English hanged him long since, as I have heard say. David Haggart. I was thinking that I should wish to be like him. Myself. Do ye mean that ye would wish to be hanged? David Haggart. I wad na flinch from that, Geordie, if I might be a great man first. Myself.
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