Malcolm does-na want to talk about it to me, a bad sign.

He declines to converse even, wi' me, Mr.Matheson.
Perhaps ye may succeed better wi' him." "Mr.Matheson can see for himself," said her son, using his most correct English, "the impropriety of my talking with an employer in this way." "Nonsense, McNish," said the minister briskly.

"You know me quite well and we both know Maitland.

It is just sheer nonsense to say that you cannot talk with us.

Everyone in town is talking.