She was here when you were in Glasgow.

She has the bonniest black e'en in Scotland, and hair like a raven's wing." "When I marry, sir, I shall marry a woman like my mother: a woman with eyes as blue as heaven, and a face like a rose.

I'll go, as you did, to Shetland for her." "There isna a house there fit for you to take a wife from, Colin, save and except the Earl's ain; and his daughter, the Lady Selina, is near thirty years old." "There are my second cousins, Helga and Saxa Vedder." Then the laird was sure in his own heart that Tallisker's advice was best.

France and Italy were less to be feared than pretty, portionless cousins.

Colin had better travel a year, and he proposed it.