You must gie me your word o' honor for that." "Minister, pray what is my word worth ?" "Everything it promises, David Callendar.

I would trust your word afore I'd trust a couple o' constables, for a' that's come and gane." "Thank you, thank you, doctor! You shall not trust, and be deceived.

I solemnly promise you to do my best for Robert, and not to leave your house until I have your permission." The next morning Dr.Morrison was at John Callendar's before he sat down to breakfast.

He had the morning paper with him, and he pointed out a paragraph which ran thus: "Robert Leslie, of the late firm of Callendar & Leslie, was found by the Rev.Dr.Morrison in an unconscious condition on the Green last night about seven o'clock.

It is supposed the young gentleman slipped and fell, and in the fall struck his head, as congestion of the brain has taken place.