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If your gracious ladyship would just please to step this way, and peep under the door, you will see how my mistress lives. So saying, Tibb led the way to the hut; and Friskarina, crouching down to a very wide chink under the door, saw a dwelling, the mere notion of which had never entered her imagination till that moment.
What did little Friskarina dream about? I can't tell you; but the first thing she thought of, when she awoke in the morning, was poor Tibb, and the wretched cold bed she had that night how different from her own, with its nice soft warm cushions.
"But tell me, Tibb," said Dame Glendinning, "what does your leddy aye do reading out o' that thick black book wi' the silver clasps? there are ower mony gude words in it to come frae ony body but a priest An it were about Robin Hood, or some o' David Lindsay's ballants, ane wad ken better what to say to it.
"Lords and others," said the English knight with great solemnity, "make way for the Lady of Piercie Shafton a secret which I listed not to make known, till fate, which hath betrayed what I vainly strove to conceal, makes me less desirous to hide that which I now announce to you." "It is Mysie Happer, the Miller's daughter, on my life!" said Tibb Tacket.
"And this change in thyself and me, thou canst by no means account for?" said young Glendinning. "Change!" replied Martin, "by our Lady it is not so much a change which I feel, as a recalling and renewing sentiments and expressions which I had some thirty years since, ere Tibb and I set up our humble household.
"Ye hae nae reason to doubt my leddy, or ony thing she says or does, Dame Glendinning," said the faithful Tibb, something offended; "and touching the bairn, it's weel kend she was born on Hallowe'en, was nine years gane, and they that are born on Hallowe'en whiles see mair than ither folk."
'Then how do you ever keep yourself warm? asked Friskarina, quite horror-struck. 'Please, my lady, I never am warm, said poor Tibb, in a very melancholy voice. Friskarina was ready to cry, 'And you say they never give you any dinner, either? she said. 'Very seldom, indeed, your ladyship.
A golden rosary, and some female ornaments marking superior rank, had been rescued in the moment of their utmost adversity, more by Tibb Tacket's presence of mind, than by the care of their owner, who was at that sad period too much sunk in grief to pay any attention to such circumstances.
"I could almost wish," said Martin, "we were a' gane, for what to do passes my puir wit. I care little for mysell, or you, Tibb, we can make a fend work or want we can do baith, but she can do neither." They canvassed their situation thus openly before the lady, convinced by the paleness of her look, her quivering lip, and dead-set eye, that she neither heard nor understood what they were saying.
Od, an I had kenn'd it had been Meg Merrilies yon night at Tibb Mumps's, I wad taen care how I crossed her. Bertram listened with great attention to this account, which tallied so well in many points with what he had himself seen of this gipsy sibyl.
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