'Tis but a nominal change, but I should like to see the estate yours.

I and my fathers have held our own, and were content to do so, adding somewhat to our means by such plunder as we could carry off from Scotland; but you have greatly advanced the family, and as a deputy warden of the marches, it is as well that Yardhope should be added to your holding.

I should be glad, too, to have you known as Sir Oswald Forster of Yardhope, and not as Sir Oswald Forster of Stoubes; and in time, if things go well with you, I charge you to build a castle here, in place of this hold; which has been good enough for plain men like myself and my father, but which is no fit residence for the estate you now hold.
"I don't mean to say that I wish you always to live here, for, maybe, Stoubes is a more pleasant abode, standing in a fair country, and with the climate somewhat less hard than this; but I should like you to come up here, at times, and to be known as Forster of Yardhope." "I will carry out your wishes, Father; but it would please me more for things to remain as they have been." "My plan is best, lad.

I shall be seneschal here for you, and little will be changed; save that you will ride at the head of the retainers, instead of myself.

'Tis not meet that I should hold the feu, when I can no longer render due service.
"Your mother is wholly of opinion that I have done enough of fighting for my life, and should trouble myself no longer with raidings and wars.