In this now sat Mrs.Grizel Kerr, a pleasant, elderly, comely body, noted for her housewifery and her garden of herbs.

Behind her, out of a shadowy corner, gleamed the white mutch of Tibbie Ross, the best nurse in that countryside.

Jamie and Alice took two chairs that had been set for them near the bed.

Strickland moved to the recess of a window.

Outside the snow fell in very large flakes, large and many, straight and steady, there being no wind.
In a chair drawn close to the great bed, on a line with the sick man's hand lying on the coverlet, sat the heir of Glenfernie.