'Laird,' said she (for so she always called him, though his lairdship was of the smallest), 'will ye tell them to bury me whaur I'll lie across at your feet?'

restrain his irreverent and untimeous jocularity

[…] protesting bills of exchange and promissory notes, and such other duties as pertain to that office by the custom and laws merchant; ( 2 ) to take acknowledgments of all deeds and other instruments […]

Filipp Filippovich rolled up his eyes. ‘And what makes you a working man?’ ‘Well, I'm obviously not a Nepman am I?’