When I bought the mahogany arm-chair, 'That's Elspeth's chair,' I said to mysel'; and when I bought the bed, 'It's hers,' I said.

Ay; but I was soon disannulled o' that thait, for, in spite of me, they were all got for him.

Not a rissom in that room is yours or mine, Elspeth; every muhlen belongs to him." "But who says so, Aaron?
I am sure he won't." "I dinna ken them.

They are leddies that come here in their carriages to see the house where Thomas Sandys was born." "But, Aaron, he was born in London!" "They think he was born in this house," Aaron replied doggedly, "and it's no for me to cheapen him." "Oh, Aaron, you pretend----" "I was never very fond o' him," Aaron admitted, "but I winna cheapen Jean Myles's bairn, and when they chap at my door and say they would like to see the room Thomas Sandys was born in, I let them see the best room I have.

So that's how he has laid hands on your parlor, Elspeth.