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"Granted," answered Bucklaw; "but I care not a penny for her tocher; I have enough of my own." "And the mother, that loves you like her own child?" "Better than some of her children, I believe," said Bucklaw, "or there would be little love wared on the matter." "And Colonel Sholto Douglas Ashton, who desires the marriage above all earthly things?"
There is a privilege common to the sons of all noble lords, the full value of which the young Scotts learnt very early in life that of making any woman with a tocher an honourable lady.
The gray-headed lay-brother, to whom he addressed himself, replied that it was little the Lady Lilias could do, but directed him to St. Abbs to find her; whereat one of the men-at-arms burst out laughing, and crying, 'That's a' that ye ken, auld Davie! As though the Master of Albany would let a bonnie lassie ware hersel' and her tocher on stone walls and dour old nuns.
There's for the demoiselle who craved for knights to break lances for her! 'Knights indeed! Highland thieves, said Jean; 'and 'tis for what tocher they may force from you, James, not for her face. 'You are right there, my puir bairn, said the Bishop. And I for my part would never counsel his Grace to yield the lambs to the wolves, even to save himself.
At the age of 23 he married his first wife, Barbara Montgomerie, an Irvine lass, with a "tocher" of 250L. This little provision was all the more serviceable to him, as his master, Taylor, becoming unfortunate in business, he was suddenly thrown out of employment, and the little fortune enabled the newly-married pair to hold their heads above water till better days came round.
It was in a lown holm of the Garnock, on the lands of Quharist, a portion of which my father gave me in tack; and Sarah's father likewise bestowed on us seven rigs, and a cow's grass of his own mailing, for her tocher, as the beginning of a plenishment to our young fortunes.
It was then that Rebecca began to turn impatient with the slow pace at which the Laird's wooing proceeded, judiciously arguing, that, as Lady Dumbiedikes would have but little occasion for tocher, the principal part of her gudeman's substance would naturally descend to the child by the second marriage.
They're too poor to keep us; an' wull be sure to sell us somewhere, an' to somebody that ha'e got the tocher to gie for us. That's what they'll do wi' us poor bodies." "I hope," said Terence, "they'll not part us. No doubt slavery will be hard enough to bear under any circumstances; but harder if we have to endure it alone. Together, we might do something to alleviate one another's lot.
Now, had you a tocher like that, it would be a gey business, I think, fourteen potato-stones at the very least, I would say, eh?" and he must get quit of the mouthful before he could finish "Eh, Janet?" "And if you go on at that rate with my pork, you will not, by-and-by, be much behind me. But, guid faith, Aminadab, I'm not ashamed, lad, of my size.
Spottiswoode with a handsome "tocher," and since his marriage had settled within five miles of Priorton. Chrissy, again, was one of a large, struggling family; a small girl, a very little crooked in figure, and with irregular features, and a brown complexion.
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