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Cosmo," she went on when they had descended, and overtaken the boy, who was waiting for them at the foot, "the Lord bless ye upo' this bonnie day! An' may ye be aye a comfort to them 'at awes ye, as ye hae been up to this present." "I houp sae, Grizzie," responded Cosmo humbly; and all went together to the kitchen.
For neither did his mother believe in him farther than that he had the best possible intentions in what he did, or did not do. At the same time she never doubted he was more of a man than ever his son would be, seeing they had such different mothers. "Grizzie," said the laird, "hae ye a drappy o' soor milk? I'm some dry."
So, about the middle of Cosmo's breakfast, that is about two minutes after he had attacked his porridge, she approached her design, if not exactly the object she desired, with the remark, "Did ye never hear the auld saw, sir "Whaur's neither sun nor mune, Laich things come abune ?" "I 'maist think I have, Grizzie," answered the laird. "But what garsye come ower 't noo?"
But that instant Mary threw herself towards Alister, and his terrible blow came down upon her, and not upon the wolf, and she fell dead in his arms that's what Grizzie says and away went the wolf, leaping and bounding, and never uttering a cry.
But Grizzie was capable of reasoning from what she saw. She marked the increase of care on the brow of her master; noted that it was always greater after he and Mr. Simon had had a talk at which Cosmo, the beloved of both, was not present; and concluded that their talk, and the laird's trouble, must be about Cosmo.
The moment she was gone, the laird fell on his knees, and gave God thanks for the word he had received by his messenger if indeed it pleased him that such Grizzie should prove to be. "O Lord," he said, "with thee the future is as the present, and the past as the future.
Grizzie kept grumbling to herself that the laddie was sure to come to "mischief;" but the main forms of "mischief" that ruled in her imagination were tramps, precipices, and spates.
"A thoosan' poun'! No ae baubee! Cosmo, I wad hae thoucht ye had mair sense! Ye can gie me the twa poun' ten I gae to Grizzie to help haud the life in 's a'. A body maun hae something i' their pooch gien they can, an' gien they canna, they maun du wi' naething. It's won'erfu' hoo little 's railly wantit!" Cosmo felt miserable. "Ye winna surely gang ohn seein' Maister Simon!"
Gien ye had nane to gie me, I wad set oot bare. But jist as ye like, Grizzie! I cud beg to be sure noo ye hae shawn the gait," he added, taking the old woman by the arm with a laugh, that she might not be hurt, "but whan ye ken ye sudna speir, an' whan ye hae, ye hae no richt to beg."
That's how Grizzie tells it I suppose because some of her people are papists. But, for as much as he wanted to marry her, you could hardly say he was in love with her could you, Lady Joan? when I tell you that, instead of stopping and taking her and her sheep home, he hurried past her, crying out, 'Gang hame, Mary. There's a mad beast on the hill. Rin, rin a' 't ye can.
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