Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Lochinvar Samuel Rutherford Crockett

A ye, said Mistress Crombie, housekeeper to Roger Mc Ghie, Laird of Balmaghie, a considerable house in the south-lying and better cultivated part of the wild lands of Galloway, aye, indeed, ye may well say it, A lisoun Begbie. It is a wondrous and most ungentle thing when the doe seeks the hart panting and brayin for a man, as the Quid Buik says. And saw ye ever sic feathers? I declare they nearly soopit the floor. My Lady Wellwood, or no my Lady Wellwood, I trow she didna come ridin by the hoose o Balmaghie only to ask the time oday, upsetting besom that she is !D uring this harangue A lisoun Begbie was clattering about among her bottles and dishes in the stoneflagged, slate-shelved still-room which constituted her pantry. A few minutes before she had cried mischievously out of the window to Lang Wat, the new undergardener of Balmaghie, to the effect that siccan a guid-lookin chiel should be seen oftener about the house but that she, A lisoun Begbie, was not wanting anything to do with the likes of him. She could get plenty of lads, and it was weel-kenned that the Glenkens folk aye took up wi their ain folk atony
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