But, be our fortune what it may in respect to these, there remains another ear — our own mind's ear— still uneasy and uncontent.

Indeed, she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negociations with the light-handed lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to kend folks, and owned by them at kirk and market, became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations.

Sectionising of traffic, it has already been observed, is a feature of the working, to afford fitted vehicles the best service available.

After all these years, she still has it.