These he threw on any way, and taking a staff from the cupboard, locked all up again, and was for setting out, when a thought arrested him.
"I cannae leave you by yoursel' in the house," said he.

"I'll have to lock you out." The blood came to my face.

"If you lock me out," I said, "it'll be the last you'll see of me in friendship." He turned very pale, and sucked his mouth in.
"This is no the way" he said, looking wickedly at a corner of the floor--"this is no the way to win my favour, David." "Sir," says I, "with a proper reverence for your age and our common blood, I do not value your favour at a boddle's purchase.

I was brought up to have a good conceit of myself; and if you were all the uncle, and all the family, I had in the world ten times over, I wouldn't buy your liking at such prices." Uncle Ebenezer went and looked out of the window for awhile.

I could see him all trembling and twitching, like a man with palsy.