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"No doubt it'th a grai-ait pity!" and he wagged his head from side to side, the picture of a poignant woe. "I saw him in the Black Bull yestreen," said Brodie, who had been silent hitherto in utter scorn of the lad they were speaking of too disgusted to open his mouth. "He was standing drinks to a crowd that were puffing him up about that prize o' his."
"Indeed, then, my young lady, she ha' the impertinence to say just that thing not in a whisper and in a corner, but loudly in the vera castle court, to whilk she cam yestreen, sae noisily that I was fain to threaten her wi' the constable before I could get shet o' her," said the housekeeper nodding her head. "What can the girl mean by it?
"Yestreen when to the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha' To thee my fancy took its wing I sat but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the toun, I sigh'd and said amang them a', You are na Mary Morison." It may be objected that in all this there is only one word, and but two or three forms of words that are not English.
One evening, as I was sitting at home, after closing the shop for the night, and conversing concerning the augmentation of our worldly affairs with Mrs Pawkie and the bairns it was a damp raw night; I mind it just as well as if it had been only yestreen who should make his appearance at the room door but the bailie himself, and a blithe face he had?
Dear me, but this be awful! I have come to tell ye that seven of your pet sheep have escaped drowning in the water; for Corrie, sae quiet and sae gentle yestreen, is rolling and dashing frae bank to bank this morning. Dear me, woman, dinna let the loss of the world's gear bereave ye of your senses.
"'Deed I can't tell you that, your honour," replied Flett. "I have been waiting for him here mysel' all the day." "Just as I expected," said the bailie, with evident annoyance; "the young rascal has escaped. When did you last see him, captain?" "I saw him yestreen, sir. But was it anything of importance you're wanting the lad for?" "Anything of importance! Ay, is it of importance!
"Really, madam," replied Lovel, "I had no disturbance; for I cannot term such the music with which some kind fairy favoured me." "I doubted Mary wad waken you wi' her skreighing; she dinna ken I had left open a chink of your window, for, forbye the ghaist, the Green Room disna vent weel in a high wind But I am judging ye heard mair than Mary's lilts yestreen.
To the House 'neath the mountain we came in the morn, Where welleth the fountain up over the corn, And the stream is a-running fast on to the House Of the neighbours uncunning who quake at the mouse, As their slumber is broken; they know not for why; Since yestreen was not token on earth or in sky. Come, up, then up!
"Well, it's a funny thing, but I can't get rid of the impression that at some point in my researches into the night life of London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person." It seemed to Bayliss that the time had come to impart to Mr. James a piece of news which he had supposed would require no imparting.
"I hae done so already," I said. "I left it wi' the dominie yestreen." The lads looked at each other, but neither offered any objection. "Oh, very well!" said Rosson, "I'll bring mine down i' the mornin'." "And I mine," echoed Hercus. During the first lesson in school it was noticed that Tom Kinlay was absent. "Where is your brother this morning, Thora?" asked Mr. Drever.
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