The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
It happened, however, that, one Saturday, being late of reaching the place of rendezvous--the foot of the staircase which led to Miss Mally's dwelling--Isabella had gone away before he arrived, with a new dress to Mrs. Jarvie, the wife of the far-famed Bailie Nicol, the same Matty who lighted the worthy magistrate to the Tolbooth, on that memorable night when he, the son of the deacon, found his kinsman Rob Roy there.