'Tis a strange thing to be so poised, between a dozen lawyers on the one hand and a mighty swoop of redcoats on the other.

'Peace in the house!' cries my father. 'Do you think I have entirely lost my hearing?'

'A bad world for the house of Durrisdeer.'

'I could have borne it better if he had not so often talked of you.'

'I have passed the most of my years in falsity and a kind of slavery, looking on at a business that I dared not interfere in.'

'I have been buffeted by too many winds to think a private quarrel very outrageous.' 

'I have sold my honour, I perceive it too late.'

'There is no pill to cure the dislike of men, once you have engaged it.'

'O that these blessed tears could wash away your memory!'

'I only ask for the lord's estate; you may take his character.'

The Master of Ballantrae