"
"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.
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