The bride (who had carefully taken off her wedding gown on getting home and donned a wrapper) coquettishly let the bridegroom's father hold her hand.

In Auld Licht circles, when one of the company was offered whisky and refused it, the others, as if pained even at the offer, pushed it from them as a thing abhorred.

But Davie Haggart set another example on this occasion, and no one had the courage to refuse to follow it.

We sat late round the dying fire, and it was only Willie Todd's scandalous assertion (he was but a boy) about his being able to dance that induced us to think of moving.

In the community, I understand, this marriage is still memorable as the occasion on which Bell Whamond laughed in the minister's face..