"Auld wifie," said Corp, "I dinna ken you, but I've just stepped up to tell you that Gavinia is to hae me." It made him the butt of the sportive.

If he or Gavinia were nigh, they gathered their fowls round them and then said: "Hens, I didna bring you here to feed you, but just to tell you that Gavinia is to hae me." This flustered Gavinia; but Grizel, who enjoyed her own jokes too heartily to have more than a polite interest in those of other people, said to her: "How can you be angry! I think it was just sweet of him." "But was it no vulgar ?" "Vulgar!" said Grizel.

"Why, Gavinia, that is how every lady would like a man to love her." And then Gavinia beamed.

"I'm glad you say that," she said; "for, though I wouldna tell Corp for worlds, I fell likit it." But Grizel told Corp that Gavinia liked it.
"It was the proof," she said, smiling, "that you have the right to marry her.

You have shown your ticket.