The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'If I had the siller, Mr. Keelevin,' replied Claud, 'to convince baith you and him that I'm no the niggar ye tak me for, I would gi'e you't wi' hearty gude will; but the advance I made to get Geordie into his partnership has for the present rookit me o' a' I had at command.'