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interrupted Mannering . `` Had she black hair , black eyes , and a cut above the brow ? '' added the lawyer . `` She was the tallest woman I ever saw , and her hair was as black as midnight , unless where it was gray , and she had a scar abune the brow , that ye might hae laid the lith -LSB- * joint -RSB- of your finger in . Naebody that 's seen her will ever forget her ; and I am morally sure that it was on the ground o ' what that gipsy-woman said that my mistress made her will , having taen a dislike at the young leddy o ' Ellangowan , and she liked her far waur after she was obliged to send her 20L -- for she said , Miss Bertram , no content wi ' letting the Ellangowan property pass into strange hands , owing to her being a lass and no a lad , was coming , by her poverty , to be a burden and a disgrace to Singleside too . -- But I hope my mistress 's is a good will for a ' that , for it would be hard an me to lose the wee bit legacy -- I served for little fee and bountith , weel I wot . '' The counsellor relieved her fears on this head , then inquired after Jenny Gibson , and understood she had accepted Mr. Dinmont 's offer ; `` and I have done sae mysell too , since he was sae discreet as to ask me , '' said Mrs. Rebecca ; they are very decent folk the Dinmonts , though my lady didna dow to hear muckle about the friends on that side the house .