This low, light breath of wind from the west will permit you to use a sail as soon as the light comes in and you are tired of rowing.

Your other valiancie, Master Page Eviot, must be content to return to Perth with me afoot, for here severs our fair company.

Take with thee the lantern, Buncle, for thou wilt require it more than we, and see thou send me back my flasket." As the pedestrians returned to Perth, Eviot expressed his belief that Bonthron's understanding would never recover the shock which terror had inflicted upon it, and which appeared to him to have disturbed all the faculties of his mind, and in particular his memory.
"It is not so, an it please your pagehood," said the leech.

"Bonthron's intellect, such as it is, hath a solid character: it Will but vacillate to and fro like a pendulum which hath been put in motion, and then will rest in its proper point of gravity.

Our memory is, of all our powers of mind, that which is peculiarly liable to be suspended.