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Updated: June 22, 2025
"At last!" she said, and would have clasped him to her bosom. But Malcolm stepped back. "Na, na, mem!" he said; "it taks twa to that!" "Malcolm!" she exclaimed, her voice trembling with emotion of some kind. "Ye may ca' me your son, mem, but I ken nae gr'un' yet for ca'in' you my " He could not say the word.
Deed, Matthew, if there comena a change among them, an' that sune, they'll swamp the puir kirk a' thegither. The cauld morality that never made ony ane mair moral, taks nae hand o' the people; an' patronage, as meikle's they roose it, winna keep up either kirk or manse o' itsel. Sorry I am, sin' Robert has entered on the quarrel at a', it suld hae been on the wrang side."
Fearing to search himself, he took refuge in resentment, and to support his hard judgment, put false and cruel interpretations on whatever befell. So that, with love and anger and wrong acknowledged, his heart was full of bitterness. "Puir fallow! gien only Ma'colm wad come hame, an' lat him ken he 's no the villain he taks him for.
"Of coorse," he explained loyally, "he's no tae be compared wi' the Doctor, for there's nae minister ootside the Auld Kirk can hae sic an air, and he 's no set up like the General, but he lookit weel an' winsome. "His hair wes flung back frae his forehead, his een were fair dancin', an' there wes a bit o' colour in his cheek. He hes a wy wi' him, a 'll no deny, 'at taks wi' fouk.
But all de same, dey've fixed it up so's dis killing business ain't perlite wen deres women about, so every feller taks 'is wife along 'o 'im so's not to be ended right away."
Will you pe taking to him a trop of uisgebeatha?" "He taks naething o' that kin'," said Malcolm. He could not tell him that the madman, as men called him, lay wrestling in prayer with the Father of lights. The old highlander was not irreverent, but the thing would have been unintelligible to him.
God send it prosperity." "It isna likely, Jenny; auld Lady Brith's money to start it! The godless auld woman! If Davie taks her advice, he's a gane lad." "Then, deacon, it's your ain fault. Whatna for did ye not gie him the £2,000?" "Just hear the woman! It taks women and lads to talk o' £2,000 as if it were picked up on the planestanes."
And then, in cold tones, she continued: 'Nay, mother; I've hed enugh o' life. I tell thee I've come wom' to dee. 'Amanda, sobbed the mother, 'if thaa taks on like that thaa'll kill me. Thaa's welly done for me a'ready, but I con live naa thaa's come back, if thaa'll nobbud live an' o', and live wi' me. Sit thee daan. It's thi cheer, Amanda; awlus wor, and awlus will be. Sit thee daan.
But, sal, as far as that gangs, Marget would do it, an' gae twice to the kirk next Sabbath, too; but if she thinks she's to get ower me like that, she taks me for a bigger fule than I tak her for. Ou, no. . . . "Mind ye, Jess, I hae no desire to be friends wi' Marget.
"Over and over again I really need to see behind the here and now!" "Aye. It's needed mair really than folk think. It's no' to be had by buying nor slaving. How are the laird and the leddy?" "Why, well. Tell me," said Strickland, "some of the things you've seen with second sight." "It taks inner ears for inner things." "How do you know I haven't them?" "Maybe 'tis so. Ye're liked well enough."
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