The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
Startled from his prayer or his reverie, Claud, yielding to the first impulse of the moment, turned angrily round at being so disturbed, and, under the influence of his old contemptuous regard for Watty, struck him a severe blow on the face,--but almost in the same instant, ashamed of his rashness, he shudderingly exclaimed, throbbing with remorse and vexation,--  'Forgi'e me, Watty, for I know not what I do;' and he added, in a wild ejaculation, 'Lord!