If ye gat not settlement this day, why then ye gat it the neist, with never a word of drawback nor craving for batement." Sholto told them briefly concerning the tragedy of Edinburgh.

He had no will for any waste of words, and as briefly thereafter of the loss of the little maid and her companion.
The Bailie of Dumfries lifted up his hands in consternation.
"'Tis surely a plot o' thae Avondales.

Stra'ven folk are never to lippen to.

And they hae made a clean sweep.

No a Gallowa' Douglas left, if they hae speerited awa' the bonny bit lass.