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"It's easy to you, Robert Bruce, wi' yer siller i' the bank, to speik that gait til a puir lone body like me, that maun slave for my bread whan I'm no sae young as I micht be. No that I'm like to dee o' auld age either." "I haena sae muckle i' the bank as some folk may think; though what there is is safe eneuch. But I hae a bonny business doun yonner, and it micht be better yet.
When Cosmo saw this, he stopped, and they waited for her. When she came up, "Are we gaein' ower fest for ye, Miss Elsie?" he said. "Not at all;" she answered, English again; "I can walk as fast as any one." Cosmo turned to Aggie and said, "Aggie, we're i' the wrang. We had no richt to speik aboot things 'at only twa kent, whan there was three walkin' thegither.
In the former I purpose to discharge in brief words my conscience towards you, and in the other somewhat I must speik in my own defence and in defence of that poor flock of lait assembled in the most godly Reformed church and city of the world Geneva.
I wreit of your Majestie all guid, assureing my selff and the Bretherine that thais Articles quhairoff a copy cam in my handis could not be from your Majestie, they wer so strange; and quhom sould I think, speik, or wryt guid of, if not of your Majestie, quho is the man under Chryst quhom I wisch most guid and honour unto."
'Duv ye think, grannie, that a body wad be allooed to speik a word i' public, like, there at the lang table, like, I mean? 'What for no, gin it was dune wi' moedesty, and for a guid rizzon? But railly, laddie, I doobt ye're haverin' a'thegither. Ye hard naething like that, I'm sure, the day, frae Mr. Maccleary. 'Na, na; he said naething aboot it. But maybe I'll gang and speir at him, though.
The effort necessary gave a tone of defiance to his words. 'What for willna ye speik to me, grannie? he said. 'I'm no a haithen, nor yet a papist. 'Ye're waur nor baith in ane, Robert. 'Hoots! ye winna say baith, grannie, returned Robert, who, even at the age of fourteen, when once compelled to assert himself, assumed a modest superiority. 'Nane o' sic impidence! retorted Mrs. Falconer.
You may be another phantom only clearer. 'Ye speik to me as gin ye thocht me somebody. 'So does the man to his phantoms, and you call him mad. It is but a yielding to the pressure of constant suggestion. I do not know I cannot know if there is anything outside of me. 'But gin there warna, there wad be naebody for ye to love, Mr. Ericson. 'Of course not. 'Nor naebody to love you, Mr. Ericson.
'Hae patience, and ye will ken. Only mind ye do as I tell ye, and dinna speik a word. Shargar followed in silence. On the way Robert remembered that Miss Napier had not, after all, given him the receipt for which his grandmother had sent him.
Say straucht oot 'at thae coorse jawds that hing aboot i' the gloamin' hae gotten a grip o' the bonnie lad. Eh! but he'll fair ill; and the Lord hae mercy upo' him and nane upo' them!" "Hoot! hoot! lass; dinna speik wi' sic a venom. Ye ken wha says Vengeance is mine?" "Ay, ay, weel eneuch. And I houp He'll tak's ain upo' sic brazen hizzies.
'Na! hev I? said Robert, putting up his hand. 'But I maun gang there's nae help for 't, he added. 'Gin I cud only win to my ain room ohn Betty seen me! That's a sair vex. 'Never mind it, returned Miss St. John, smiling. 'It is of no consequence. But you must come with me. I must see what I can do for your head. Poor boy! 'Eh, mem! but ye are kin'! Gin ye speik like that ye'll gar me greit.
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