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Updated: May 22, 2025

"Is that e'en sae?" replies Alan, as though it were a thing of small-account. And then, "Ye were saying, mem?" says he; and the wearyful wife went on. Presently, however, he paid her with a half-crown piece, and she must go forth after the change. "Was it him with the red head?" asked Alan. "Ye have it," said I. "What did I tell you in the wood?" he cried.

Robert Louis Stevenson - David Balfour, Second Part : Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona