well water."

"She is e'en't!" I cried.

"Well, then, she told me her concerns," pursued Miss Grant, "and in

what a swither she was in about her papa, and what a taking about

yourself, with very little cause, and in what a perplexity she had

found herself after you was gone away. AND THEN I MINDED AT LONG

LAST, says she, THAT WE WERE KINSWOMEN, AND THAT MR. DAVID SHOULD

HAVE GIVEN YOU THE NAME OF THE BONNIEST OF THE BONNY, AND I WAS

THINKING TO MYSELF 'IF SHE IS SO BONNY SHE WILL BE GOOD AT ALL

EVENTS'; AND I TOOK UP MY FOOT SOLES OUT OF THAT. That was when I

forgave yourself, Mr. Davie. When you was in my society, you

seemed upon hot iron: by all marks, if ever I saw a young man that

wanted to be gone, it was yourself, and I and my two sisters were

the ladies you were so desirous to be gone from; and now it

appeared you had given me some notice in the by-going, and was so

kind as to comment on my attractions! From that hour you may date

our friendship, and I began to think with tenderness upon the Latin

grammar."

"You will have many hours to rally me in," said I; "and I think

besides you do yourself injustice. I think it was Catriona turned

your heart in my direction. She is too simple to perceive as you

do the stiffness of her friend."

"I would not like to wager upon that, Mr. David," said she. "The

lasses have clear eyes. But at least she is your friend entirely,

as I was to see. I carried her in to his lordship my papa; and his

Advocacy being in a favourable stage of claret, was so good as to

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