"My father fell at Culloden, you know.

As to all your other questions, they are answered easily enough.

I know very little of the news in Scotland, for my mother lived a very secluded life at Kilgowrie, and little news came to us from without.

I came from Leith to Stettin, and there I bought a horse and rode on here." His companion laughed.
"And how about yourself?
I suppose you know nothing of this beastly language ?" "Yes; I can speak it pretty fluently, and of course know French." "I congratulate you, though how you learnt it, up in the hills, I know not.

I did not know a word of it, when I came out two years ago; and it is always on my mind, for of course I have a master who, when I am not otherwise engaged, comes to me for an hour a day, and well nigh maddens me with his crack-jaw words; but I don't seem to make much progress.