I have told them that I will be their backer at need; I made the deal wi' them direct and ye have nowt to do with it.

You are ill to please, young man! You come here with a very singular story, and nowt to back it but a glib tongue and your smooth, innocent-like young face--and you go back hame with a heaped gowpen of gold, and mair in the kist ahint of that.

I think ye do very weel for yoursel'." "Don't mind him, Mr.Johnson," said Mary Selden.

"He is only teasing you." Old McClintock covered her hand with his own and continued: "Listen to her now! Was ne'er a lassie yet could bear to think ill of a bonny face!" He drew down his brows at Pete, who writhed visibly.
Ferdie Sedgwick rose and presented a slip of pasteboard to McClintock, with a bow.
"I have to-day heard with astonishment--ahem!--and with indignation, a great many unseemly and disrespectful remarks concerning money, and more particularly concerning money that runs to millions," he said, opposing a grave and wooden countenance to the battery of eyes.

"Allow me to present you my card, Mr.McClintock, and to assure you that I harbor no such sentiments.