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 with sympathy for the situation of his companion.

"Hegh, sirs!" was the expression of the ci-devant ploughman of the Mains of Tillietudlem; "it's an unco thing that decent folk should be harled through the country this gate, as if they were a warld's wonder."

"I am sorry to see you here, Cuddie," said Morton, who, even in his own distress, did not lose feeling for that of others.

"And sae am I, Mr Henry," answered Cuddie,"baith for mysel and you; but neither of our sorrows will do muckle gude that I can see. To be sure, for me," continued the captive agriculturist, relieving his heart by talking, though he well knew it was to little purpose,—"to be sure, for my part, I hae nae right to be here ava', for I never did nor said a word against either king or curate, but my mother, puir body, couldna haud the auld tongue o' her, and we maun baith pay for't, it's like."