There is many another good thing to do, but we'll begin wi' these, and the rest will follow." The laird had listened thus far in speechless indignation.

He now stood still, and said, "I'll hae you to understand, Dominie Tallisker, that I am laird o' Crawford and Traquare, and I'll hae nae such pliskies played in either o' my clachans." "If you are laird, I am dominie.

You ken me weel enough to be sure if this thing is a matter o' conscience to me, neither king nor kaiser can stop me.

I'd snap my fingers in King George's face if he bid me 'stay,' when my conscience said 'go,'" and the dominie accompanied the threat with that sharp, resonant fillip of the fingers that is a Scotchman's natural expression of intense excitement of any kind.
"King George!" cried the laird, in an ungovernable temper, "there is the whole trouble.

If we had only a Charles Stuart on the throne there would be nane o' this Whiggery." "There would be in its place masses, and popish priests, and a few private torture-chambers, and whiles a Presbyterian heretic or twa burned at the Grass-market.