What is done is done." "And how is your mother, Oswald ?" Mistress Armstrong asked.
"She is well, Aunt, and bade me give her love to you." "Truly I wonder she keeps her health, with all these troubles and anxieties.

We had hoped that, after the meeting last March of the Commissioners on both sides, when the Lords of the Marches plighted their faith to each other, and agreed to surrender all prisoners without ransom, and to forgive all offenders, we should have had peace on the border.

As you know, there were but three exceptions named; namely Adam Warden, William Baird, and Adam French, whom the Scotch Commissioners bound themselves to arrest, and to hand over to the English Commissioners, to be tried as being notorious truce breakers, doing infinite mischief to the dwellers on the English side of the border.

And yet nothing has come of it, and these men still continue to make their raids, without check or hindrance, either by the Earl of March or Douglas." "There are faults on both sides, wife," her husband said.
"I do not deny it, gudeman; but I have often heard you say these three men are the pests of the border; and that, were it not for them, things might go on reasonably enough, for no one counts a few head of cattle lifted, now and again.

It is bad enough that, every two or three years, armies should march across the border, one way or the other; but surely we might live peaceably, between times.