Excerpt from St. Ronan's Well, Vol. 2 of 3 In such a town it usually happens that the Sheriff-clerk, especially supposing him agent for Several lairds'of the higher order, is possessed of one of the best-looking houses; and such was that of Mr Bindloose. None of the smartness of the brick-built and brass-hammered mansion of a southern attorney appeared indeed in this mansion, which was a tall, thin, grim-looking building, in the centre of the town, with narrow Windows and projecting gables, notched into that sort of descent, called crow-steps, and having the lower easements defended by stancheons of iron; for Mr Bindloose, as frequently happens, kept a branch of one of the national banks, which had been lately established in the town of March thorn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.