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The Ayrshire Legatees-Part16_John Galt(1779-1839)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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having, in the meanwhile, taken from her pocket an epistle which she



had received the preceding day from Mrs. Pringle, Mr. Snodgrass

silenced all controversy on that score by requesting her to proceed



with the reading. "She's a clever woman, Mrs. Pringle," said Mrs.

Craig, who was resolved to cut a figure in the conversation in her



own house. "She's a discreet woman, and may be as godly, too, as

some that make mair wark about the elect." Whether Mrs. Glibbans



thought this had any allusion to herself is not susceptible of legal

proof; but she turned round and looked at their "most kind hostess"



with a sneer that might almost merit the appellation of a snort.

Mrs. Craig, however, pacified her, by proposing, "that, before



hearing the letter, they should take a dram of wine, or pree her

cherry bounce"--adding, "our maister likes a been house, and ye a'



ken that we are providing for a handling." The wine was accordingly

served, and, in due time, Miss Mally Glencairn edified and



instructed the party with the contents of Mrs. Pringle's letter.

LETTER XXVI



Mrs. Pringle to Miss Mally Glencairn

Dear Miss Mally--You will have heard, by the peppers, of the gret



hobbleshow heer aboot the queen's coming over contrary to the will

of the nation; and, that the king and parlement are so angry with



her, that they are going to put her away by giving to her a bill of

divorce. The Doctor, who has been searchin the Scriptures on the



okashon, says this is not in their poor, although she was found

guilty of the fact; but I tell him, that as the king and parlement



of old took upon them to change our religion, I do not see how they

will be hampered now by the word of God.



You may well wonder that I have no ritten to you about the king, and

what he is like, but we have never got a sight of him at all, whilk



is a gret shame, paying so dear as we do for a king, who shurely

should be a publik man. But, we have seen her majesty, who stays



not far from our house heer in Baker Street, in dry lodgings, which,

I am creditably informed, she is obligated to pay for by the week,



for nobody will trust her; so you see what it is, Miss Mally, to

have a light character. Poor woman, they say she might have been



going from door to door, with a staff and a meal pock, but for ane

Mr. Wood, who is a baillie of London, that has ta'en her by the



hand. She's a woman advanced in life, with a short neck, and a

pentit face; housomever, that, I suppose, she canno help, being a



queen, and obligated to set the fashons to the court, where it is

necessar to hide their faces with pent, our Andrew says, that their



looks may not betray them--there being no shurer thing than a false-

hearted courtier.



But what concerns me the most, in all this, is, that there will be

no coronashon till the queen is put out of the way--and nobody can



take upon them to say when that will be, as the law is so dootful

and endless--which I am verra sorry for, as it was my intent to rite



Miss Nanny Eydent a true account of the coronashon, in case there

had been any partiklars that might be servisable to her in her



bisness.

The Doctor and me, by ourselves, since we have been settlt, go about



at our convenience, and have seen far mae farlies than baith Andrew

and Rachel, with all the acquaintance they have forgathert with--but



you no old heeds canno be expectit on young shouthers, and they have

not had the experience of the world that we have had.



The lamps in the streets here are lighted with gauze, and not with

crusies, like those that have lately been put up in your toun; and



it is brought in pips aneath the ground from the manufactors, which

the Doctor and me have been to see--an awful place--and they say as



fey to a spark as poother, which made us glad to get out o't when we

heard so;--and we have been to see a brew-house, where they mak the



London porter, but it is a sight not to be told. In it we saw a




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