There's a knock that canna be mista'en, an' a' heard it last night.
I canna but think ye're usin me as ye wudna like to be used yersel!'
Because, sae far as I see, she canna think that ye hae left a' for him.
He canna dee again for ane 'at wudna turn til 'im i' this life!
And yet she is a bonny winsome maid, that I canna cast off.'
canna ye say it's no' for yoursel', it's for the house—she wad na refuse that.
They canna do mair than they can do: ten pounds is as good as ten hundred.
An' I canna min' whan I began to come here first, luikin' for something.
I canna jist mind if it was a funeral or a weddin'—but it was fair graun'.
"Weel, I canna help it," said Leeby, probably beginning to whimper.
