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'How, and in what manner? 'Her ain sell, replied Callum, 'could wait for him a wee bit frae the toun, and kittle his quarters wi'her skene-occle. 'Skene-occle! what's that? Callum unbuttoned his coat, raised his left arm, and, with an emphatic nod, pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly deposited under it, in the lining of his jacket.
And the same or waur will fa' upon us if we dinna march on intae the land and plant our ensigns afore the wicked toun o' London the toun where the Lord's wark is tae be done, and the tares tae be separated frae the wheat, and piled up for the burning. 'Your advice, in short, is that we march on! said Monmouth.
But for a man of his propensity to wrath these were enough; he knew neither rest nor peace, except by snatches; in the gray of the summer morning, and already from far up the hill, he would wake the "toun" with the sound of his shoutings; and in the lambing time, his cries were not yet silenced late at night.
'Aha, Monsieur, said Vandeloup, gaily, rolling a cigarette in his slender fingers, and shooting a keen glance at Archie; 'you have had a pleasant day. 'Maybe yes, maybe no, returned McIntosh, cautiously, fumbling in the bag; 'there's naething muckle in the toun, but deil tack the bag, he continued, tetchily shaking it. 'I've gotten a letter or so fra' France.
"My dear sir," said I, when I had accepted of the invitation with thanks, "how could you possibly connect me with the stage?" "I watna," replied Mr. Jarvie; "it was a bletherin' phrasin' chield they ca' Fairservice that cam at e'en to get an order to send the crier through the toun for ye at skreigh o' day the morn.
"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.
There was not in the limits of the guid toun a dame or damsel, greybeard, or no-beard, that possessed within the boundaries of their cerebral dominions a single peg on which they could hang a veritable or plausible doubt of the true character, origin, and destination of this twelve-o'clock visiter of the good old town of "Christ's Kirk on the Green."
This affair settled, they walked briskly on a little farther, when, coming to the ridge of a pretty steep hill, Hobbie Elliot exclaimed, "Now, Earnscliff, I am aye glad when I come to this very bit Ye see the light below, that's in the ha' window, where grannie, the gash auld carline, is sitting birling at her wheel and ye see yon other light that's gaun whiddin' back and forrit through amang the windows? that's my cousin, Grace Armstrong, she's twice as clever about the house as my sisters, and sae they say themsells, for they're good-natured lasses as ever trode on heather; but they confess themsells, and sae does grannie, that she has far maist action, and is the best goer about the toun, now that grannie is off the foot hersell.
Although Burns, in 1787, briefly described the place as a "lazy toun," the inhabitants were displaying much energy in carrying out improvements in their port.* In 1775 the foundation-stone of the new pier designed by Mr.
"Naething worth mentioning, Sir Marmaduke," answered Geordie; "a'thing quiet, decent, and orderly i' the toun and i' the country no excepting your ain house here, whar I hae missed mony a gude luck-penny sin' your honour departed." "Has Lady Maitland not been in the habit of employing you, then, Geordie?" asked Sir Marmaduke.
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