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'I can but try, replied Tibb, looking as if she began to have an indistinct idea that her new friend meant to do something for her. 'Then, continued Friskarina, 'if you will follow me, and keep quiet behind the trees in the garden, I will give you part of my dinner every day.
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.
"Ye hae tell'd me that before," said Tibb; "but anent the Hallowe'en?"
Christie also seemed conscious of something, which made him call out with more than his usual insolence of manner, "What, ho! so ho! the house! Churl peasants, will no one answer when I call? Ho! Martin, Tibb, Dame Glendinning a murrain on you, must we stand keeping our horses in the cold here, and they steaming with heat, when we have ridden so sharply?"
'I did not know whether I should see you this morning, pursued Friskarina, 'I thought you might be sitting by the fire all day, as it is so very cold. 'Dear ma'am, we have no fire! exclaimed poor Tibb, as if astonished at the very idea of such a luxury; 'my mistress won't have a fire till she wants to boil her dinner.
Odd, 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.
The faithful Tibb echoed her complaints, and, more violently clamorous, made deep promises of revenge on Sir Piercie Shafton, "if there were a man left in the south who could draw a whinger, or a woman that could thraw a rape." The presence of the Sub-Prior imposed silence on these clamours.
"I could hae wished it had been the deil himself be good to and preserve us! rather than Christie o' the Clint-hill," said the matron of the mansion, "for the word runs rife in the country, that he is ane of the maist masterfu' thieves ever lap on horse." "Hout-tout, Dame Elspeth," said Tibb, "fear ye naething frae Christie; tods keep their ain holes clean.
That conclusion of her morning's adventures not appearing desirable to poor Tibb, she lost no time in following her friend's advice, and, with a scramble or two, was soon over the wall, and on her road home.
"Ye maun ken, then, Tibb," said Dame Glendinning, "that when I was a hempie of nineteen or twenty, it wasna my fault if I wasna at a' the merry-makings time about." "That was very natural," said Tibb; "but ye hae sobered since that, or ye wadna haud our braw gallants sae lightly."
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