He wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and then escape to his ain country, the land-louper.

I wad likeit weel just to hae come in at the clipping-time, and gien him a lounder wi' my pike-staff; he wad hae taen it for a bennison frae some o' the auld dead abbots.

But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally.

I'se be upsides wi' him ae day." "What if you should inform Mr.Oldbuck ?" said Lovel.
"Ou, I dinna ken--Monkbarns and Sir Arthur are like, and yet they're no like neither.

Monkbarns has whiles influence wi' him, and whiles Sir Arthur cares as little about him as about the like o' me.