human
He arrived just as the group of tenants and peasants, whose numbers increased every moment, satiated with gazing upon the rugged features of Hatteraick, had turned their attention toward Bertram. Almost all of them, especially the aged men who had seen Ellengowan in his better days, felt and acknowledged the justice of Meg Merriles's appeal. But the Scotch are a cautious people; they remembered there was another in possession of the estate, and they as yet only exprest their feelings in low whispers to each other. Our friend, Jock Jabos, the postilion, forced his way into the middle of the circle; but no sooner cast his eyes upon Bertram, than he started back in amazement, with a solemn exclamation,
gpt
As sure as there's breath in man, it's auld Ellengowan.
human
Bertram forever!
gpt
Long life to the heir of Ellangowan!
human
God send him his ain, and to live among us as his forebears did of yore!
gpt
I hae been seventy years on the land,
human
I and mine hae been seventy and seven to that, said another;
gpt
I have a right to ken the glance of a Bertram.
human
I and mine hae been three hundred years here, said another old man,
gpt
Blessings on him--he's the very picture o' his father! The Bertrams were ay the wale o' the countryside!
human
Eh! that his puir mother, that died of grief and in doubt about him, had but lived to see this day!
gpt
But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers, cried others;