The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
For Milrookit, as I was saying, having refused, point-blank, Mr. Pitwinnoch, to implement the 'nuity of fifty pounds per annus, that your client--(that's a legal word, Mr. Pitwinnoch)--that your client settled on my gude-dochter, I told him he would--then and there refusing--be bound over to pay me for the bed, board, and washing.