And then they stretch out their faces, and make mouths, and girn at me, and whichever way I look, I see a face laughing like Meg Murdockson, when she tauld me I had seen the last of my wean.

God preserve us, Jeanie, that carline has a fearsome face!" She clapped her hands before her eyes as she uttered this exclamation, as if to secure herself against seeing the fearful object she had alluded to.
Jeanie Deans remained with her sister for two hours, during which she endeavoured, if possible, to extract something from her that might be serviceable in her exculpation.

But she had nothing to say beyond what she had declared on her first examination, with the purport of which the reader will be made acquainted in proper time and place.

"They wadna believe her," she said, "and she had naething mair to tell them." At length, Ratcliffe, though reluctantly, informed the sisters that there was a necessity that they should part.

"Mr.Novit," he said, "was to see the prisoner, and maybe Mr.Langtale too.