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"'O wad some power the giftie gie us," chanted Bea's tongue between clicks, "'To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad fra mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." Then as Berta took a threatening step in her direction, she broke into a run. "I think I'll take some exercise now," she called back mockingly as she fled up the stairs.
She laid it at the feet of our governess as though to say "There now, what do you make of that?" "Horrors!" cried Mrs. Handsomebody, drawing back, as though the puppy were a serpent. With a joyful kick of the heels, Giftie was off again. In breathless silence we waited. The second puppy, sleepy and squirming, was laid beside its brother. "I presume you have another?" said Mrs.
"Would you allow them to accept a sovereign apiece then?" "That would be permissible." "I shall be back directly," and with astonishing speed she ran to the house with Colin and Giftie barking on either side of her. It was but a moment till she returned and pressed a golden sovereign into each languid hand.
"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!" Now, whence comes this large and approximately uniform discrepancy between our self-esteem and others' esteem of us? By trying to answer this question we shall come to understand still better the processes by which the most powerful forms of illusion are generated.
Perhaps we older people are too prone to forget that youth is not a sin to be condemned, or even a folly to be sneered at. "Wad some power the giftie gie us" to remember that we were not always cool-headed, clear-seeing and middle-aged!
"O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" Of course I notice such things immensely more in Berlin than in Paris, because the glory of a Court is much more than the twinkle of a republic. I have worked myself into such a towering rage over this subject that there is no getting down to earth gracefully or gradually.
'Amy likes it; but decidedly I should never have known myself. 'Ah, said his wife 'Could some fay the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us. 'As far as the sun-burnt visage is concerned, the glass does that every morning. 'Yes, but you don't look at yourself exactly as you do at a painted window, said Amy, in her demure way.
So universal is this lack of self-under standing that the poet expressed a real human longing when he said: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us And even devotion!"
Well, now, if I were in the situation, I should feel that I was wearing the one next my body and carrying the other three." "That's because you are an egotist and can't project yourself. I have the power the giftie gi'e me, and see myself as others see me. How's that for quick adaptation?" "Quite like you.
"Is that your opinion?" she said in affected surprise, while the other school-girls gathered round, tittering at the caustic little tongue. "I suppose you study the poets, Miss Irvine; and if so, doubtless you will remember who it is that says: 'Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!"
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