The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'What ye say, Doctor,' resumed the Leddy, 'is no to be controverted; for, poor lad, he certainly fell intil a sore melancholic at that time; and it's my conceit he has ne'er rightly got the better o't; for he was--hegh, sirs!--he was till that time the kindest o' a' my bairns; but, frae the day and hour that his wife took her departel in childbed, he has been a changed creature.