You had better ship off, as soon as all is ready here and you can arrange it, the servants whom I engaged; and I am not sure that we shall not want as many more.
There has hardly been a mop or broom on the place for centuries, and I doubt if it ever had a thorough good cleaning all over since it was built.

And, do you know, Uncle, that it might be well to double that little army of yours that you are arranging for Rupert?
Indeed, the boy told me himself that he was going to write to you about it.

I think old Lachlan and his wife, Sandy's Mary, had better be in charge of the maids when they come over.

A lot of lassies like yon will be iller to keep together than a flock of sheep.

So it will be wise to have authority over them, especially as none of them speaks a word of foreign tongues.