Do you want Mr.Maitland's job here, or is there anyone in your shop who would be anything but an embarrassment trying running the Maitland Mills, and you know quite well that the men want nothing of the sort.

It may be as Mrs.McNish said, 'a good negotiating point,' but it has no place in practical politics here in Blackwater.

How would you like, for instance, to take orders from Simmons ?" The old lady chuckled delightedly.

"He has you there, laddie, he has you there!" But this McNish would not acknowledge, and proceeded to argue at great length on purely theoretical grounds for joint control of industries, till his mother quite lost patience with him.
"Hoots, laddie, haud yer hoofs on mither earth.

Would ye want yon radical bodies to take chairge o' ony business in which ye had a baubee?
Ye're talkin' havers." "Now, let us look at the last," said Mr.Matheson.