The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
'That's a' true, Geordie; but I hae a misdoot that a's no right and sound wi' her mair than wi' him; and when we reflek how the mim maidens nowadays hae delivered themselves up to the little-gude in the shape and glamour o' novelles and Thomson's _Seasons_, we need be nane surprised to fin' Miss as headstrong in her obdooracy as the lovely young Lavinia that your sister Meg learnt to 'cite at the boarding-school.'