The library had two windows.

From one you could look down and see nothing but the foliage of the den, with a gleam of water where the burn made a pool, and from the other you looked over a meadow with big trees to the Tochty sweeping round a bend, and across to the high opposite banks covered with brush-wood.
First they visited Carnegie's room.
"Here have we been born, and died if we did not fall in battle, and it's not a bad billet after all for an old soldier.

Yes, that is your mother when we were married, but I like this one better," and the General touched his breast, for he carried his love next his heart in a silver locket of Indian workmanship.
Three fine deerskins lay on the floor, and one side of the room was hung with tapestry; but the most striking piece of furnishing in the room was an oak cupboard, sunk a foot into the wall.
"I 'll show you something in that cabinet after luncheon, Kate; but now let's see your room." "How beautiful, and how cunning you have been," and then she took an inventory of the furniture, all new, but all in keeping with the age of the room.

"You have spent far too much on a very self-willed and bad-tempered girl, and all I can do is to make you promise that you will come up here sometimes and let me give you tea in this window-seat, where we can see the woods and the Tochty." "Well, Donald," said the General at table to his faithful servant, "how do you think Drumtochty will suit you ?" "Any place where you and Miss Kate will be living iss a good place for me, and there are six or maybe four men I hef been meeting that hef the language, but not good Gaelic--just poor Perthshire talk," for Donald was a West Highlander, and prided himself on his better speech.
"And what about a kirk, Donald?
Aren't you Free like Janet ?" "Oh, yes, I am Free; but it iss not to that kirk I will be going most here, and I am telling Janet that she will be caring more about a man that hass a pleasant way with him than about the truth." "What's wrong with things, Donald, since we lay in Edinburgh twenty years ago, and you used to give me bits of the Free Kirk sermons ?" "It iss all wrong that they hef been going these last years, for they stand to sing and they sit to pray, and they will be using human himes.
And it iss great pieces of the Bible they hef cut out, and I am told that they are not done yet, but are going from bad to worse," and Donald invited questioning.
"What more are they after, man ?" "It will be myself that has found it out, and it iss only what might be expected, but I am not saying that you will be believing me." "Out with it, Donald; let's hear what kind of people we 've come amongst." "They 've been just fairly left to themselves, and the godless bodies hef taken to watering the whisky.".