No, you shall be bound in no way externally; let all go on as heretofore.

I will have it so." And of all Lord Cairnforth's generosity she would accept of nothing for herself except a small annual sum, which, with her widow's pension from the East India Company, sufficed to make her independent of her father; but she did not refuse kindness to her boy.
Never was there such a boy.

"Boy" he was called from the first, never "baby;" there was nothing of the baby about him.

Before he was a year old he ruled his mother, grandfather, and Uncle Duncan with a rod of iron.

Nay, the whole village were his slaves.