It's not greed sends him out, but sheer love of spoil.

Would you like to see MacTavish next time he passes up with the cattle ?" for Carmichael was emboldened by the reception of his sketch.
"Nothing we should like better, for the General and I want to know all about Scotland; but don't you think that those ministers have injured the Highlanders?
Janet, you know, has such gloomy ideas about religion." "There is no doubt, Miss Carnegie, that a load of Saxon theology has been landed on the Celt, and it has disfigured his religion.

Sometimes I have felt that the Catholic of the west is a truer type of northern faith than the Presbyterian of Ross-shire." "I am so glad to hear you say that," said Miss Carnegie, "for we had one or two west Catholics in the old regiment, and their superstitions were lovely.

You remember, dad, the MacIvers." "That was all well enough, Kit, but none of them could get the length of corporal; they were fearfully ignorant, and were reported at intervals for not keeping their accoutrements clean." "That only showed how religious they were, did n't it, Mr.Carmichael?
Hadn't the early Christians a rooted objection to the bath?
I remember our Padre saying that in a lecture." "There are a good many modern Christians of the same mind, Miss Carnegie, and I don't think our poor Highlanders are worse than Lowlanders; but Catholic or Protestant, they are all subject to the gloom.

I cannot give the Gaelic word.
"What is that?
Oh, a southerner would call it depression, and assign it to the liver, for he traces all trouble to that source.