The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
But pride ne'er leaves its master without a fa'--your father's weel serv't--he would tak nane o' my advice in your education; but instead o' sending you to a Christian school, got down frae Manchester, in England, a governess for miss, my leddy, wi' gum-flowers on her head, and paint on her cheeks, and speaking in sic high English, that the Babel babble o' Mull and Moydart was a perfection o' sense when compar't wi't.'