The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
exclaimed the Leddy, throwing herself back in the chair, and lifting both her hands and eyes in wonderment.--'But thou, Beenie Walkinshaw, is a soople fairy; and so a' the time that thy father,--as blin' as the silly blin' bodie that his wife gart believe her gallant's horse was a milch cow sent frae her minny,--was wising and wyling to bring about a matrimony, or, as I should ca't, a matter-o'-money conjugality wi' your cousin Jamie, hae ye been linking by the dyke-sides, out o' sight, wi' Walky Milrookit?