Search -
The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: The heart of Midlothian
The Handy Volume Waverly The heart of Midlothian Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as he could get a word thrust in, the one on the laws of Scotland, the other on those of Syntax, and neither listening to a word which his companion uttered. ... more »CHAP. IV. Elswliair he colde right weel lay down the law, But in his hoitse was meek as is a da-w. Davie Lintisay. HERE has been Jock Driver the carrier here, ; speering about his newgraith," said'Mrs. Saddle- . tree to her husband, as he crossed his threshold, not with the purpose, by any means, of consulting him upon his own affairs, but merely to intimate, by a gentle recapitulation, how much duty she had gone through in his absence. " Weel," replied Bartoline, and deigned not a word more. " And the Laird of Girdingburst has had his running footman here, and ca'd himsell (he's a civil pleasant young gentleman), to see when the broidered saddlecloth for his sorrel horse will be ready, for he wants it agane the Kelso races." " Weel, aweel," replied Bartoline, as laconically ai before. "And his lordship, the Earl of Blazonbury, Lord Flash and Flame, is like to be clean daft, that the harness for the six Flanders mears, wi' the crests, coronets, housings, and mountings conform, are no sent hame according to promise gien." '' Weel, weel, weel—weel, weel, gudewifc," said Saddletree, " if he gangs daft, we'll hae him cognosced—it's a- very weel." "It's weel that ye think sae, Mr. Saddletree," answered his helpmate, rather nettled at the indifferencewith which her report was received ; '' there's mony ane wad hae thoucht themselves affronted, if sae moiiy customers had ca'd and naebody to answer them but women-folk ; for a' the lads were aff, as soon as your back was turned, to see Porteous hanged, that might be counted upon ; and sae, you no being at hame " " Houts, Mrs. Saddletree," said Bartoli...« less