You have a better argument in these tears upon your bonny face_.

And at that I was so weakminded as to kiss her, which is what you would like to do dearly, and I wager will never find the courage of.

I say it was weakminded of me, for I knew no more of her than the outside; but it was the wisest stroke I could have hit upon.

She is a very staunch, brave nature, but I think she has been little used with tenderness; and at that caress (though to say the truth, it was but lightly given) her heart went out to me.

I will never betray the secrets of my sex, Mr.Davie; I will never tell you the way she turned me round her thumb, because it is the same she will use to twist yourself.