'I think,' continued she, 'they that hae taen interest in the house of Ellangowan suld sleep nane this night; three men hae been seeking ye, and you are gaun hame to sleep in your bed.

D' ye think if the lad-bairn fa's, the sister will do weel?
Na, na!' 'I don't understand you, good woman,' said Hazlewood.

'If you speak of Miss---, I mean of any of the late Ellangowan family, tell me what I can do for them.' 'Of the late Ellangowan family ?' she answered with great vehemence--'of the LATE Ellangowan family! and when was there ever, or when will there ever be, a family of Ellangowan but bearing the gallant name of the bauld Bertrams ?' 'But what do you mean, good woman ?' 'I am nae good woman; a' the country kens I am bad eneugh, and baith they and I may be sorry eneugh that I am nae better.

But I can do what good women canna, and daurna do.

I can do what would freeze the blood o' them that is bred in biggit wa's for naething but to bind bairns' heads and to hap them in the cradle.