'What can be the harm of trying them ?' 'My credit.' 'Fal lal.

What's the meaning of credit?
How are you to know whether you have got any credit if you don't try?
Come, I'll tell you how you can do it.

Old Cuttwater would lend it you for the asking.' To this proposition Alaric at first turned a deaf ear; but by degrees he allowed Undy to talk him over.

Undy showed him that if he lost the Tillietudlem burghs on this occasion it would be useless for him to attempt to stand for them again.

In such case, he would have no alternative at the next general election but to stand for the borough of Strathbogy in Aberdeenshire; whereas, if he could secure Tillietudlem as a seat for himself, all the Gaberlunzie interest in the borough of Strathbogy, which was supposed to be by no means small, should be transferred to Alaric himself.