The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
But no to be my own trumpeter--ye'll just, Mr. Pitwinnoch, write a mandamus to Milrookit, in a civil manner--mind that; and tell him in the same, that I'll be greatly obligated if he'll gie up the house and property of Kittlestonheugh to the heir-male, James Walkinshaw, his cousin; or, failing therein, ye'll say that I hae implemented you to pronounce an interlocutor against him; and ye may gie him a bit hint frae yoursel--in a noty beny at the bottom--that you advise him to conform, because you are creditably informed that I mean to pursue him wi' a' the law o' my displeasure.'