He was punished, tae, before ever Macduff killed him-- wasna he a victim of insomnia, and is there anything worse for a man tae suffer frae than that?
Aye, if ever the time comes when I've a chance to play in one of Wull Shakespeare's dramas, it's Macbeth I shall choose instead of Hamlet.
So I gie you fair warning.

But it's only richt to say that the wife tells me I'm no to think of doing any such daft thing, and that my managers agree wi' her.

So I think maybe I'll have to be content just to be a music hall singer a' my days--till I succeed in retiring, that is, and I think that'll be soon, for I've a muckle tae do, what wi twa-three mair books I've promised myself to write.
Weel, I was saying, a while back, before I digressed again, that soon after that nicht at Gatti's I moved to London for a bit.

It was wiser, it seemed tae me.

Scotland was a lang way frae London, and it was needfu' for me to be in the city so much that I grew tired of being awa' sae much frae the wife and my son John.