"What are your instructions ?" he added, and took up his pen.
"The first point is to smuggle Alan forth of this country," said I, "but I need not be repeating that." "I am little likely to forget it," said Stewart.
"The next thing is the bit money I am owing to Cluny," I went on.

"It would be ill for me to find a conveyance, but that should be no stick to you.

It was two pounds five shillings and three-halfpence farthing sterling." He noted it.
"Then," said I, "there's a Mr.Henderland, a licensed preacher and missionary in Ardgour, that I would like well to get some snuff into the hands of; and as I daresay you keep touch with your friends in Appin (so near by), it's a job you could doubtless overtake with the other." "How much snuff are we to say ?" he asked.
"I was thinking of two pounds," said I.
"Two," said he.
"Then there's the lass Alison Hastie, in Limekilns," said I."Her that helped Alan and me across the Forth.

I was thinking if I could get her a good Sunday gown, such as she could wear with decency in her degree, it would be an ease to my conscience: for the mere truth is, we owe her our two lives." "I am glad to see you are thrifty, Mr.Balfour," says he, making his notes.
"I would think shame to be otherwise the first day of my fortune," said I."And now, if you will compute the outlay and your own proper charges, I would be glad to know if I could get some spending-money back.

It's not that I grudge the whole of it to get Alan safe; it's not that I lack more; but having drawn so much the one day, I think it would have a very ill appearance if I was back again seeking, the next.