"What's your nephew's name, sir ?" "Ian.

Ian Rullock.

His father's mother was a Highland lady, near kinswoman to Gordon of Huntley." Mr.Touris was again speaking to his host.

"As a laddie, before his father's death (his mother, my sister, died at his birth), he was much with those troublous northern kin.

His father took him, too, in England, here and there among the Tory crowd.
But I've had him since he was twelve and am carrying him on in the straight Whig path." "And in the true Presbyterian religion ?" "Why, as to that," said Mr.Touris, "his father was of the Church Episcopal in Scotland.