The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
What would my worthy father hae said had he lived to see the day that his dochter won sic a braw estate by her ain interlocutors?--and what would your gudefather hae said, when he was ay brag bragging o' the conquest he had made o' the Kittlestonheugh o' his ancestors--the whilk took him a lifetime to do--had he seen me, just wi' a single whisk o' dexterity, a bit touch of the law, make the vera same conquest for your son Jamie Walkinshaw in less than twa hours?'