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Thomas came up, pale and limping a little. "That's no Thomas Crann?" repeated Tibbie, before he had time to address her. "What for no, Tibbie?" returned Thomas. "'Cause I canna hear yer breath, Thamas." "That's a sign that I hae the mair o' 't, Tibbie.
Robert Bruce went away, and did not purchase the cottage, which was in the market at a low price, He had intended Tibbie to believe, as she did, that he had already bought it; and if she had agreed to pay even the sevenpence, he would have gone from her to secure it.
He's the true son of his forbears, an' Gowanbrae used to be always open in the auld lord's time, that's his grandfather Foreby, that he owes so much kindness to the General." Ermine further suggested that it was a pity to wait for a letter from the Colonel, and Tibbie quite agreed. She "liked the nurse as an extraordinar' douce woman, not like the fine English madams that Miss Isabel that's Mrs.
He might have been excused if he was proud of his boy, for he was a noble little fellow, a "braw chiel," as he was pronounced to be by his grand-aunt, Mistress Tibbie Mactavish, who had presided at his birth, and likely to do no discredit to the name of Murray.
There was not a person in Glamerton who would have dared to speak thus to Thomas Crann but Tibbie Dyster, perhaps because there was not one who had such a respect for him. Possibly the darkness about her made her bolder; but I think it was her truth, which is another word for love, however unlike love the outcome may look, that made her able to speak in this fashion.
There was so shocked and startled a look on Colin's face, that Tibbie believed that his brother must be dead, and when in a few almost inaudible words he told her that he must start for Bishopsworthy by the afternoon train, she fairly began to scold, partly by way of working off the irritation left by her alarm. "The lad's clean demented!
I sepad it had been bocht cheap second-hand, for the chair I had was terrible scratched like, an', what's mair, the airm-chair was a heap shinnier than the rest." "Ay, ay, I wager it had been new stuffed. Tibbie said the carpet cowed for grandeur?" "Oh, I dinna deny it's a guid carpet; but if it's been turned once it's been turned half a dozen times, so it's far frae new.
"Janice, thee should turn actress." "Oh, Tibbie, lace my bodice quickly, or I shall burst of laughing," breathlessly begged the girl. "Janice," said her mother, entering, "how often must I tell thee that giggling is missish? Stop, this moment." "Yes, mommy," gasped Janice. Then she added, after a shriek and a wriggle, "Don't, Tabitha!" "What ails thee now, child?
That's a michty genteel thing, I've heard." It turned out that Jess was right in every particular. Leeby was at the fire brandering a quarter of steak on the tongs, when the house was flung into consternation by Hendry's casual remark that he had seen Tibbie Mealmaker in the town with her man. "The Lord preserv's!" cried Leeby. Jess looked quickly at the clock. "Half fower!" she said, excitedly.
"Now I know why he always makes me feel so uncomfortable and afraid and and gawky. 'T is because he is a lord. Sometimes he does look at me as if as if he were hungry ugh! It frights me. But he must know what 's the mode. 'Lady Janice Clowes. 'T is a pity the title is not prettier. Whatever will Tibbie say when she hears!"
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