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He glanced through the windows at the dark, suspicious-looking clouds and said, "Weel, my leddy, I'll no uphaud it." This was the answer of a courtier and an oracle, not to mention a Scotchman. It did not contradict Lady Arthur, it did not commit himself, and it was cautious. "I think it will be a fine day of its kind," said the lady, "and we'll drive to Cockhoolet.
The maid seemed to understand, for she replied, promptly, "I hope he will." "But he hasna spiered her as yet, you think?" "No," she said, "no, but he calls her Ailie, and wi' the gentry it's but one loup frae that to spiering." "Maybe," answered the doctor, "but it's a loup they often bogle at. I'se uphaud he's close on fifty, Gavinia?"
When our Liddesdale friend had heard the whole to an end, he shook his great black head 'Weel, I'll uphaud there's baith gude and ill amang the gipsies, and if they deal wi' the Enemy, it's a' their ain business and no ours. I ken what the streeking the corpse wad be, weel eneugh.
"Good God!" said I "so young, so beautiful, so early lost!" "Troth ye may say sae she's in a manner lost, body and saul; forby being a Papist, I'se uphaud her for" and his northern caution prevailed, and he was again silent. "For what, sir?" said I sternly. "I insist on knowing the plain meaning of all this." "On, just for the bitterest Jacobite in the haill shire."
I'se uphaud it's been Robertson that learned ye that doctrine when ye saw him at Muschat's Cairn." "Was it him?" said Effie, catching eagerly at his words "was it him, Jeanie, indeed? O, I see it was him poor lad, and I was thinking his heart was as hard as the nether millstane and him in sic danger on his ain part poor George!"
But say at ye like, I s' uphaud Ma'colm again' the haill poustie o' ye. Gien he was but here! I say't again, honest laad!" But she could not rouse Peter to utterance, and losing what little temper she had, she rated him soundly, and sent him home saying with the prophet Jonah, "Do I not well to be angry?" for that also he placed to Malcolm's account.
'I'se uphaud ye ken little of the matter, said Willie; 'let us see haud of your hand, neebor, gin ye like. I gave him my hand.
"Ye needna care wha did it, or how it was done," said Aislie Gourlay; "but I'll uphaud it for nae stickit job, and that the lairds and leddies ken weel this day." "And was it true," said Annie Winnie, "sin ye ken sae muckle about it, that the picture of auld Sir Malise Ravenswood came down on the ha' floor, and led out the brawl before them a'?"
They never give a patient the least credit for common sense." "I dinna ken, my lord," said Malcolm doubtfully. After a few minutes' silence, during which Malcolm thought he had fallen asleep, the marquis resumed abruptly. "What do you mean by giving you a legal right?" he said. "There's some w'y o' makin' ae body guairdian till anither, sae 'at the law 'ill uphaud him isna there, my lord?"
When they had supped they gathered round the fire, Grizel knitting a shawl for they knew whom, but the name was never mentioned, and Tommy told the story of his life at the French court, and how he fought in the '45 and afterward hid in caves, and so did he shudder, as he described the cold of his bracken beds, and so glowed his face, for it was all real to him, that Grizel let the wool drop on her knee, and Corp whispered to Elspeth, "Dinna be fleid for him; I'se uphaud he found a wy."
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