'I would not suffer a complier to break bread with Christian folk.

Of all the sins of this day there is not one so God-defying, so Christ-humiliating, as damnable compliance': the boy standing before her meanwhile, and brokenly pursuing other thoughts, mainly of Haddo and Janet, and Jock Crozer stripping off his jacket.

And yet, with all his distraction, it might be argued that he heard too much: his father and himself being 'compliers'-- that is to say, attending the church of the parish as the law required.
Presently, the lady's passion beginning to decline, or her flux of ill words to be exhausted, she dismissed her audience.

Francie bowed low, left the room, closed the door behind him: and then turned him about in the passage-way, and with a low voice, but a prodigious deal of sentiment, repeated the name of the evil one twenty times over, to the end of which, for the greater efficacy, he tacked on 'damnable' and 'hellish.' _Fas est ab hoste doceri_--disrespect is made more pungent by quotation; and there is no doubt but he felt relieved, and went upstairs into his tutor's chamber with a quiet mind.

M'Brair sat by the cheek of the peat-fire and shivered, for he had a quartan ague and this was his day.