"They drove over this morning." "I met them on the way," I answered.
As I looked down at the little factor, I could see that his face was flushed and that he bore every appearance of having had an extra glass.
"Give me a real gentleman to do business with," he said, with a burst of laughter.

"They understand me and I understand them.

'What shall I fill it up for ?' says the general, taking a blank cheque out o' his pouch and laying it on the table.

'Two hundred,' says I, leaving a bit o' a margin for my own time and trouble." "I thought that the landlord had paid you for that," I remarked.
"Aye, aye, but it's well to have a bit margin.

He filled it up and threw it over to me as if it had been an auld postage stamp.