How often did I not regret the change!--how often compare her, and condemn her in the comparison, with her charming niece! But if my entertainer was not beautiful, she had certainly been busy in my interest.

Already she was in communication with my destined fellow-travellers; and the device on which she had struck appeared entirely suitable.

I was a young Englishman who had outrun the constable; warrants were out against me in Scotland, and it had become needful I should pass the border without loss of time, and privately.
'I have given a very good account of you,' said she, 'which I hope you may justify.

I told them there was nothing against you beyond the fact that you were put to the haw (if that is the right word) for debt.' 'I pray God you have the expression incorrectly, ma'am,' said I.

'I do not give myself out for a person easily alarmed; but you must admit there is something barbarous and mediaeval in the sound well qualified to startle a poor foreigner.' 'It is the name of a process in Scots Law, and need alarm no honest man,' said she.