Send a' the wine and dainties you like to, but don't you stir a foot o'er the threshold." His anger was, in its way, as authoritative as the dominie's.

Helen did as she was bid, more especially as Tallisker in this seconded the laird.
"There is naething she could do in the village that some old crone could not do better." It was a bitterly annoying interruption to Crawford's pleasant dreams and plans.

He got up and went over to the works.

He found things very bad there.

Three more of the men had left sick, and there was an unusual depression in the village.