You will not have been long there, and not known some of our friends or family ?" "I lived with a very honest, kind man called Duncan Dhu Maclaren," I replied.
"Well I know Duncan, and you give him the true name!" she said; "and if he is an honest man, his wife is honest indeed." "Ay," said I, "they are fine people, and the place is a bonny place." "Where in the great world is such another ?" she cries; "I am loving the smell of that place and the roots that grew there." I was infinitely taken with the spirit of the maid.

"I could be wishing I had brought you a spray of that heather," says I."And though I did ill to speak with you at the first, now it seems we have common acquaintance, I make it my petition you will not forget me.

David Balfour is the name I am known by.

This is my lucky day when I have just come into a landed estate and am not very long out of a deadly peril.

I wish you would keep my name in mind for the sake of Balquidder," said I, "and I will yours for the sake of my lucky day." "My name is not spoken," she replied, with a great deal of haughtiness.
"More than a hundred years it has not gone upon men's tongues, save for a blink.