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Excerpt from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 11: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative; With a Glossary
An opposition or check which Gourlay did not al together like; for, in secret truth, he had long con templated an entry by these said skeleton keys, and, like all people who want a justification for some act they wish to perform, not altogether consistent with what is right, he had often in serious playfulness knocked his foot against the Old worm-eaten, wood-rusted, dry-rotted door, as if he expected some confined ghost to shriek, like that unhappy spirit of the Buchan Caves, Let me out, let me out whereupon Mr. Gourlay would have been, we doubt not, more humane than his Old father god, who would not let the pretty mother of love out of his iron not.
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