Oh yes," continued Janet, settling herself down to narrative, and giving no heed to Kate's beguiling ways, "old Mary that died near a hundred would be often telling me stories of the old days when I wass a little girl, and the one I liked best wass about the hiding of the Duke of Perth." "You will tell me that to-morrow, when I come down to see your house, Janet, and to-day you 'll tell me how to open the spring." "But it would be a pity not to finish the story about the Duke of Perth, for it goes well, and it will be good for a Carnegie to hear it." And Kate flung herself into the window-seat, but was hugely interested all the same.
"Mary wass sitting at her door in the evening, and that would be three days after Culloden, for the news had been sent by a sure hand from the Laird, when a man came riding along the road, and as soon as Mary saw him she knew he wass somebody; but perhaps it will be too long a story," and Janet began to arrange dresses in a wardrobe.
"No, no; as you have begun it, I want to hear the end, but quick, for there 's the room to see and the rest of the Lodge before it grows dark.

What like was he ?" "He wass a man that looked as if he would be commanding, but his clothes were common grey, and stained with the road.

He wass very tired, and could hardly hold himself up in the saddle, and his horse wass covered with foam.

'Is this Tochty Lodge ?' he asked, softening his voice as one trying to speak humbly.

'I am passing this way, and have a message for Mistress Carnegie; think you that I can have speech of her quietly ?' "So Mary will go up and tell the lady that one wass waiting to see her, and that he seemed a noble gentleman.