But we'll sune get a new thairm till her,' he added, in a tone of sorrowful commiseration and condolence, as he took the violin from the case, tenderly as if it had been a hurt child.
One touch of the bow, drawing out a goul of grief, satisfied him that she was uninjured.

Next a hurried inspection showed him that there was enough of the catgut twisted round the peg to make up for the part that was broken off.

In a moment he had fastened it to the tail-piece, tightened and tuned it.

Forthwith he took the bow from the case-lid, and in jubilant guise he expatiated upon the wrong he had done his bonny leddy, till the doors and windows around were crowded with heads peering through the dark to see whence the sounds came, and a little child toddled across from one of the lowliest houses with a ha'penny for the fiddler.

Gladly would Robert have restored it with interest, but, alas! there was no interest in his bank, for not a ha'penny had he in the world.