"Saunderson explained, as if it were a usual occurrence, that he had given away all the spare linen in his house to a girl that had to marry in.

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urgent circumstances, and had forgotten to get more.

And what do you think did he offer as a substitute for sheets ?" No one could even imagine what might not occur to the mind of Saunderson.
"Towels, as I am an honourable man; a collection of towels, as he put it, 'skilfully attached together, might make a pleasant covering.' That is the first and last time I ever slept in the Free Church Manse of Kilbogie.

As regards Saunderson's study, I will guarantee that the like of it cannot be found within Scotland," and at the very thought of it that exact and methodical ecclesiastic realised the limitations of language.
His boys boasted of the Rabbi's study as something that touched genius in its magnificent disorderliness, and Carmichael was so proud of it that he took me to see it as to a shrine.