The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
CHAPTER LXXIV   'Indeed, Leddy,' said the Laird of Dirdumwhamle, when she told him of the detection, as she called it, of Robina's notion of his son--'Blood ye ken's thicker than water; and I have na been without a thought mysel that there was something by the common o' cousinship atween them.