human
I have been sitting with one who was in the same case with yourself, said I,
gpt
Did ye so? cries she.
human
Ye met Rob?
gpt
I passed the night with him,
human
He is a fowl of the night,
gpt
There was a set of pipes there, I went on,
human
You should be no enemy, at all events, said she.
gpt
That was his brother there a moment since, with the red soldiers round him. It is him that I call father.
human
Is it so? cried I.
gpt
Are you a daughter of James More's?
human
All the daughter that he has, says she:
gpt
(meaning by that himself) was to do about
human
There can be none the day, Neil, she replied.
gpt
How will you get 'sneeshin,' wanting siller? It will teach you another time to be more careful; and I think James More will not be very well pleased with Neil of the Tom.
human
Miss Drummond, I said,
gpt
I told you I was in my lucky day. Here I am, and a bank-porter at my tail. And remember I have had the hospitality of your own country of Balwhidder.
human
It was not one of my people gave it,
gpt
Ah, well, said I,
human
If it had been a great sum, it might have done you honour, said she.
gpt
But I will tell you what this is. James More lies shackled in prison; but this time past, they will be bringing him down here daily to the Advocate's...
human
The Advocate's? I cried.
gpt
Is that...?
human
It is the house of the Lord Advocate, Grant of Prestongrange, said she.
gpt
There they bring my father one time and another, for what purpose I have no thought in my mind; but it seems there is some hope dawned for him. All this same time they will not let me be seeing him, nor yet him write; and we wait upon the King's street to catch him; and now we give him his snuff as he goes by, and now something else. And here is this son of trouble, Neil, son of Duncan, has lost my fourpenny-piece that was to buy that snuff, and James More must go wanting, and will think his daughter has forgotten him.
human
That sixpence came with me by Balwhidder,
gpt
Ah! she said,
human
I would not like to deceive you either, said I.
gpt
I know very little of the Gregara and less of James More and his doings; but since the while I have been standing in this close, I seem to know something of yourself; and if you will just say 'a friend to Miss Catriona' I will see you are the less cheated.
human
The one cannot be without the other,
gpt
I will even try,
human
And what will you be thinking of myself? she cried,
gpt
I am thinking nothing but that you are a good daughter,
human
I must not be without repaying it, she said;
gpt
To tell the truth, I am stopping nowhere yet, said I,
human
Will I can trust you for that?
gpt
You have little fear,
human
James More could not bear it else, said she.
gpt
I stop beyond the village of Dean, on the north side of the water, with Mrs. Drummond-Ogilvy of Allardyce, who is my near friend and will be glad to thank you.
human
You are to see me then, so soon as what I have to do permits,