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Ye were aye willing to slight puir Cuddie; but an I had asked him to oblige me in a thing, though it had been to cost his hanging, he wadna hae stude twice about it." "D n Cuddie!" retorted the dragoon, "he'll be hanged in good earnest, I hope.
"Gudewife," said Davie, interrupting her, "these are but idle tales to tell me; fit for naething but to puff up our inward man wi' our ain vain acts. I stude beside blessed Alexander Peden, when I heard him call the death and testimony of our happy martyrs but draps of blude and scarts of ink in respect of fitting discharge of our duty; and what suld I think of ony thing the like of me can do?"
Crombie, a very decent woman, is a friend of mine, and I hae stude her friend in this case, and brought her wi' credit into the court, and I doubtna that in due time she will win out o't wi' credit, win she or lose she.
Saddletree, the harness-maker: 'And as for the Lords of States ye suld mind the riding o' the Parliament in the gude auld time before the Union. A year's rent o' mony a gude estate gaed for horse-graith and harnessing, forby broidered robes and foot-mantles that wad hae stude by their lane with gold and brocade, and that were muckle in my ain line.
But at the last she gae a gret sich, an' a sab, like, an' stude jist as gien she was tryin' sair, but could not mak up her bonny min' to yon 'at was i' the ballant. An' eh! hoo I grippit the buik atween me an' the tree for there it was a' as I saw 't afore!
"Maybe no, sister," said Effie. "But ye are angry because I love Robertson How can I help loving him, that loves me better than body and soul baith? Here he put his life in a niffer, to break the prison to let me out; and sure am I, had it stude wi' him as it stands wi' you" Here she paused and was silent. "O, if it stude wi' me to save ye wi' risk of my life!" said Jeanie.
"If I were free to swear that ye had said but ae word of how it stude wi' you, they couldna hae touched your life this day!" "Could they na?" said Effie, with something like awakened interest. "Wha' tauld ye that, Jeannie?" "It was ane that kenned what he was saying weel eneugh," said Jeannie. "Hout!" said Ratcliffe. "What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?
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