The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
But with that remarkable prudence, so conspicuous in her character, she made no one acquainted with the real motives by which she was actuated,--namely, to acquire some knowledge of the criminal law, her father not having, as she said, 'paid attention to that Court of Justice, his geni being, like her own, more addicted to the civilities of the Court o' Session.'