But after he had gone she returned to the kitchen to reprove Gavinia at greater length, and in the midst of the reproof she said faintly: "You did not happen to look at the end, did you ?" "That I did," replied Gavinia.
"And did she--did he--" "No," said Gavinia, sorrowfully.
Miss Ailie sighed.

"That's what I think too," said Gavinia.
"Why didn't they ?" asked the school-mistress.
"Because he was just a sumph," answered Gavinia, scornfully.

"If he had been like Fergus, or like the chield in 'Ivanhoe,' he wouldna have ta'en a 'no.' He would just have whipped her up in his arms and away wi' her.
That's the kind for me, ma'am." "There is a fascination about them," murmured Miss Ailie.
"A what ?" But again Miss Ailie came to.

"For shame, Gavinia, for shame!" she said, severely; "these are disgraceful sentiments." In the meantime Tommy had hurried with the book, not to the manse, but to a certain garret, and as he read, his imagination went on fire.
Blinder's stories had made him half a Jacobite, and now "Waverley" revealed to him that he was born neither for the ministry nor the herding, but to restore to his country its rightful king.

The first to whom he confided this was Corp, who immediately exclaimed: "Michty me! But what will the police say ?" "I ken a wy," answered Tommy, sternly..