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'Can we see the sea from the window? 'No, dearest cheaile; you will see't time enough. 'I'd like to get up, I said. 'Time enough, my dear Maud; you are fatigued; are you sure you feel quite well? 'Well enough to get up; I should be better, I think, out of bed. 'There is no hurry, you know; you need not even go by the next packet. Your uncle, he tell me, I may use my discretion.
"No, sir," said she, "I canna take help from the poor's-box, although it's very true that I am in great need; for it might hereafter be cast up to my bairns, whom it may please God to restore to better circumstances when I am no to see't; but I would fain borrow five pounds, and if, sir, you will write to Mr Maitland, that is now the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and tell him that Marion Shaw would be obliged to him for the lend of that soom, I think he will not fail to send it."
Elsewise, I'd ha' said a chap might ha' had a bit o' comfort then." "Uncle Dan, did you ever think of praying that Aunt Filomena might have a better temper?" "Ever think of what?" demanded Uncle Dan in the biggest capitals ever seen on a placard. "You know God could make her temper sweet, Uncle Dan." "Thou believes that, does thou?" "I do." "So will I when I see't.
"Well, you see I was born in them parts, down to Canton, where father belonged; but mother was a Simsbury woman, and afore I was long-togged, father he moved onter the old humstead up to Simsbury, when gran'ther Peck died. Our farm was right 'longside o' Miss Buel's; you'll see't when you go there; but there a'n't nobody there now.
Ye saw it cudna be agreeable to her to hae ye aboot her no that weel washed, and wi' claes ye didna keep tidy and clean! Sin' ever ye tuik to luikin efter Phemy, I hae had little trouble luikin efter you! 'I see't, Kirsty, I see't! I never thoucht o' the thing afore! I micht du a heap to mak mysel mair like ither fowk! I s' no forget, noo 'at I hae gotten a grip o' the thing. Ye'll see, Kirsty!
Efter kirnin' aboot amon' the leaves o' his book for a meenit or twa, Nathan got up his nose to the moo o' the lantern an' read oot "A slice o' a drunkard's liver." "What d'ye say?" says Sandy. "Lat's see't." "A slice o' a drunkard's liver," says Nathan again. Sandy grippit the book, an' efter a meenit, he says, "Ay, man; so you're richt. There's been some mixin' amon' the pictures.
"I s'posed likely ye'd think strange on't at fust; but ye h'ain't no need ter, fur it's a sens'ble thing ter dew, an' yell see't so when ye've thought on't a spell: see if ye don't."
Yes, if any body durst hear him; by Jove, if you Be not kind to him, he'll hector you all; I'll get The way on't too, 'tis the most prosperous one; I see no Other reason you have to love Alcander Better than I. Am. Why should you think I do? Fal. Devil, I see't well enough by your continual Quarrels with him. Am. Is that so certain a proof? Fal.
Davy Spink, who found it, tried in vain to read the writing; Davy's education had been neglected, so he was fain to confess that he could not make it out. "Let me see't," said Swankie. "What hae we here? "Ay, so 'tis. I canna make out the next word, but here's something about the jewel-case."
Now the Gregara have had grand practice." "No doubt that's a branch of education that was left out with me," said I. "And I can see the marks of it upon ye constantly," said Alan. "But that's the strange thing about you folk of the college learning: ye're ignorant, and ye canna see't. Wae's me for my Greek and Hebrew; but, man, I ken that I dinna ken them there's the differ of it. Now, here's you.
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