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"Maister Dauvit Balfour is informed a friend was speiring for him, and her eyes were of the grey," it ran and seemed so extraordinary a piece to come to my hands at such a moment and under cover of a Government seal, that I stood stupid. Catriona's grey eyes shone in my remembrance. I thought, with a bound of pleasure, she must be the friend.
'You are a leal faithful little lady, Mary; but you are no good as yet, when Angus is speiring for my sister for his heir. 'And do you trow, said Jean hotly, 'that when one sister is to be a queen, and the other is next thing to it, we are going to put up with a raw-boned, red-haired, unmannerly Scots earl?
"But I'm saying, Dand" she came nearer him "I'm for the muirs. I must have a braith of air. If Clem was to be speiring for me, try and quaiet him, will ye no?" "What way?" said Dandie. "I ken but the ae way, and that's leein'." I'll say ye had a sair heid, if ye like." "But I havena," she objected. "I daursay no," he returned.
"Maister Dauvit Balfour is informed a friend was speiring for him, and her eyes were of the grey," it ran and seemed so extraordinary a piece to come to my hands at such a moment and under cover of a Government seal, that I stood stupid. Catriona's grey eyes shone in my remembrance. I thought, with a bound of pleasure, she must be the friend.
"Na," says he, "and niether you nor me," says he, "and as sune as I can win to stand on my twa feet we'll be aff frae this craig o' Sawtan." Sure eneuch, nae time was lost, and that was ower muckle; for before they won to North Berwick Tam was in a crying fever. He lay a' the simmer; and wha was sae kind as come speiring for him, but Tod Lapraik!
She moved to her spinning-wheel and gave it a turn. 'Ay, she said, 'and whose is the cow? He was not without a genuine curiosity. 'What would you do for any cow in that case? 'And is it Torrance's cow? asked Mistress Betty. 'Och, but I know it's Torrance's cow that ye're speiring for. The young minister was recalled to a sense of his duty. He rose up with brisk dignity.
Sure eneuch, nae time was lost, and that was ower muckle; for before they won to North Berwick Tam was in a crying fever. He lay a' the simmer; and wha was sae kind as come speiring for him but Tod Lapraik! Folk thocht afterwards that ilka time Tod cam near the house the fever had worsened. I kenna for that; but what I ken the best, that was the end of it.
Duthie, but it's speiring ower muckle o' a woman to expect her to gang to the kirk in her ilka day claethes." The Babbie of yesterday would have laughed at this, but the new Babbie sighed. "I wonder you don't go to Mr. Dishart's church now. Nanny," she said, gently. "I am sure you prefer him."
Deed you'll be kind o' forced to, for he'll let nae other lad come Speiring after you." "I'll ne'er mak' it up wi' him; no, not for a' the gold in Fife; and you may tell him if he ever speaks o' me again, I'll strike the lies aff his black mouth wi' my ain hand." She found a safe vent for her emotions in the subject, and she continued it until her visitors went. But it was an unwise thing.
All he could say was that Wilson had bought it and paid it. 'But, losh, said I, 'he maun 'a' lat peep what he wanted the place for! But na; it seems he was owre auld-farrant for the like of that. 'We'll let the folk wonder for a while, Mr. Gibson, he had said. 'The less we tell them, the keener they'll be to ken; and they'll advertise me for noathing by speiring one another what I'm up till."
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