amiston

Updated: May 16, 2025

'Ye cannot spoil it, Alan, said my father, rubbing his hands with much complacency; 'that is the very cream of the business, man it is just, as I said before, a subject upon whilk all the TYRONES have been trying their whittles for fifteen years; and as there have been about ten or a dozen agents concerned, and each took his own way, the case is come to that pass, that Stair or Amiston could not mend it; and I do not think even you, Alan, can do it much harm ye may get credit by it, but ye can lose none.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet