The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
After which a pause ensued--a very syncope of sadness--a dwam of woe, as the Leddy herself would have called it, had she been spared, to witness how much we all felt.--But she was gone--she had paid the debt of nature, and done, as Dirdumwhamle said, what we are all in this life ordained to do.