The laird will get his ain again, and the bonnyest leddy in a' the land to boot." "She _is_ a bonny lass, but na too gude for him, although her fair hand does gie him back his lands." "It's only a' just as it sud be." "Na, it's no all as it sud be.

Look at they fules trying to pit up yon triumphal arch! The loons hae actually gotten the motto 'HAPPINESS' set upside down, sae that a' the blooming red roses are falling out o' it.

An ill omen that if onything be an ill omen.

I maun rin and set it right." The speakers in this short colloquy were Mrs.Girzie Ross, housekeeper, and Mr.Alexander McRath, house-steward of Castle Lone.
The locality was in the Highlands of Scotland.

The season was early summer.