human
It is not much that I have done, said she,
gpt
Catriona! says I,
human
I do not know, said she;
gpt
I am only telling you the seeming in my heart. And then to marry a new man! Fy! But that was her; and she was married again upon my Uncle Robin, and went with him awhile to kirk and market; and then wearied, or else her friends got claught of her and talked her round, or maybe she turned ashamed; at the least of it, she ran away, and went back to her own folk, and said we had held her in the lake, and I will never tell you all what. I have never thought much of any females since that day. And so in the end my father, James More, came to be cast in prison, and you know the rest of it as well as me.
human
And through all you had no friends?
gpt
No, said she;
human
I have been pretty chief with two-three lasses on the braes, but not to call it friends.
gpt
Well, mine is a plain tale, said I.
human
I never had a friend to my name till I met in with you.
gpt
And that brave Mr. Stewart?
human
O, yes, I was forgetting him, I said.
gpt
But he is a man, and that is very different.
human
I would think so, said she.
gpt
O, yes, it is quite different.
human
And then there was one other, said I.
gpt
I once thought I had a friend, but it proved a disappointment.
human
It was a he, then, said I.
gpt
We were the two best lads at my father's school, and we thought we loved each other dearly. Well, the time came when he went to Glasgow to a merchant's house, that was his second cousin once removed; and wrote me two-three times by the carrier; and then he found new friends, and I might write till I was tired, he took no notice. Eh, Catriona, it took me a long while to forgive the world. There is not anything more bitter than to lose a fancied friend.