Robert Leslie has wonderfu' broad ideas about religion now.

Jenny, I dinna like the men who are their ain Bibles and ministers." "But there are good folk outside Dr.Morrison's kirk, deacon, surely." "We'll trust so, surely, we'll trust so, Jenny; but a man wi' broad notions about religion soon gets broad notions about business and all other things.

Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co.

as 'old fogyish!'" "That's no hanging matter, deacon, and ye must see that the world is moving." "Maybe, maybe; but I'se never help it to move except in the safe, narrow road.

Ye ken the Garloch mill-stream?
It is narrow enough for a good rider to leap, but it is deep, and it does its wark weel summer and winter.