how-come-so

Updated: May 28, 2025

To which she answered, 'Nay, but thof your honour be a little how-come-so, you shouldn't damn folk's faders; and I won't stand to it, for one. 'Oh, I beg you a thousand pardons I wish your father no ill in the world he was a very honest man in his way.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet