"Cornel," said Jarvis solemnly, "and she'll bear me witness,the young gentleman never heard a word from meno, nor from either groom or gardener; I'll gie ye my word for that.

The law would not let me gie up my schoolin' altogether.

Oh lassie, turn not sae awa' Disdainfu', gie na death to me; Does pity mark the tears that fa'?

"Only to think," said his great-grandmother, "that up in London all they could gie to he was a bad penny.