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I dinna mind the leddy's name; but there's tocher wi' lass o' his I'll warrant. He's na laird o' Cockpen, for a penniless lass wi' a long pedigree." As I sat meditating over this news which made the torment of suspicion and suspense more intolerable than ever behold a postscript added some two days after. "Oh! Oh! Sic news! gran news! news to make baith the ears o' him that heareth it to tingle.
He accordingly discerned, in the daughter of one of his flock, a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood, those personal attractions and amiable dispositions which awakened his manly sympathies; and, too high-minded to stoop to mercenary considerations, he married a second time, without hunting for a tocher, as is sometimes imputed sarcastically to the Scottish clergy.
'Twould be the best tidings I've heard for many a long day, that you were wedded to a lass with a good tocher, and fit to guide your silly pate. What's that? Her vows! If they are no better than yours, the sooner they are forgot the better. If she had another love, 'twould be another matter, but with a bishop on your side, you've naught to fear. Malcolm turned away, sick at heart.
"I will keep house for the young folk myself, for the tower is grown very lonely," thought Dame Glendinning, "and to live near the kirk will be mair comfortable in my auld age and then Edward may agree with his brother about the feu, more especially as he is a favourite with the Sub-Prior, and then he may live in the auld tower like his worthy father before him and wha kens but Mary Avenel, high-blood as she is, may e'en draw in her stool to the chimney-nook, and sit down here for good and a'? It's true she has no tocher, but the like of her for beauty and sense ne'er crossed my een; and I have kend every wench in the Halidome of St.
'Solid dukedoms for a lassie! cried young James. 'What a craven to make such a bargain! 'Scarce like his father's son, returned Sir Patrick, 'who gat the bride with a kingdom for her tocher that these folks have well-nigh lost among them. 'The saints be praised if they have. 'I cannot forget, my liege, how your own sainted father loved and fought for King Harry of Monmouth.
"Leap back!" exclaimed Craigengelt, with a well-assumed air of astonishment, "that would be playing the back-game with a witness! Leap back! Why, is not the girl's fortune " "The young lady's, if you please," said Hayston, interrupting him. "Well well, no disrespect meant. Will Miss Ashton's tocher not weigh against any in Lothian?"
Silence, while the shadows of the trees in the vale below grew longer and longer. Then said White Farm: "She isna what they call your equal in station. And she has nae tocher or as good as nane." "For the last I have enough for us both. For the first the springs of Barrow and Jardine, back in Time's mountains, are much the same.
At the worst, the money was no more than a tocher with the lad; it was their start in Drimlee and Maam that are now together for the sake of an old vanity of the factors.... You must tell all that," she went on, paying no heed to the perplexity in his face. "It would be unfair to do less, my dear; it will be wiser to do all.
Nelly could have said, "And welcome," but she knew the consequences, and forbore. "He's willin' to take you with him, Nelly, and he shows his good blood when he holds that a Carnegie needs no tocher."
"Oh, the limmer," he cried, "only a week since my kinsman Tam Gallaberry asks me brave and canny for the lend of five hundred to stock his Back Hill. He offered decent enough security, and as usual I took Charlotte's opinion on the business. For it's her that has the great head for the siller. Oh yes, she has that. And as soon as they gat the tocher, he's off wi' the lassie.
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