The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
How little likely was it, in my father's time, that I should have been in this comparative poverty, and yet, but for those acquirements, which were studied for brighter prospects, how dark and sad would often have been my residence in this sequestered village!'     CHAPTER LX   In the meantime, the fortunes of George, whom we now regard as the third Laird of Grippy, continued to flourish.