The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
My word, Watty, t'ou has thy ain luck--first thy grandfather's property o' the Plealands, and syne'--She was going to add, 'sic a bonny braw-tochered lass as Betty Bodle'--but her observation struck jarringly on the most discordant string in her husband's bosom, and he interrupted her sharply, saying,--  'Every thing that's ordained will come to pass; and a' that I hae for the present to observe to you, Girzy, is, to tak tent that the lad gangs over wiselike, at the gloaming, to Kilmarkeckle, in order to see Miss Betty anent the wedding.'