No, I were not.
What else were you then?
Why, I was a merchant once.
That is a travelling vagrant pedlar, as I understand your term?
Yes, may be.
Were you ever any thing else in the way of calling?
Never.
Come back now to what you call the marriage. Do you pretend to say that it was done after the common old form of the church of Scotland? Is not the general way by a clergyman?
That is not the general way altogether.
Do you mean that the common ordinary way in Scotland is not to send for a clergyman, but to go a hunting after a fellow like you?