"You will be saying next, Gavinia, that we never played at Jacobites in the Den!" "I dinna deny that Corp and me played," Gavinia answered determinedly, "but you didna.

You said to us, 'Think shame,' you said, 'to be playing vulgar games when you could be reading superior books.' They were his very words, were they no, man ?" she demanded of her unhappy husband, with a threatening look.
"They were," said Corp, in deepest gloom.
"I must get to the bottom of this," said Tommy, rising, "and as you are too great a coward, Corp, to tell the truth with that shameless woman glowering at you, out you go, Gavinia, and take your disgraced bairn with you.

Do as you are told, you besom, for I am Captain Stroke again." Corp was choking with delight as Gavinia withdrew haughtily.

"I was sure you would sort her," he said, rubbing his hands, "I was sure you wasna the kind to be ashamed o' auld friends." "But what does it mean ?" "She has a notion," Corp explained, growing grave again, "that it wouldna do for you to own the like o' us.

'We mauna cheapen him,' she said.