The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
The servants accordingly retired; and Walter reached across the table to lay hold of the big Bible, in order to read his chapter where he had inserted the stick; but his father angrily struck him sharply over the fingers, saying,--  'Hast t'ou neither grace nor gumshion, that t'ou daurs to tak awa the word o' God frae before my very face?