Crossword-Solution: ANCRUM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

After crossing the Tweed, I saw no more of my persecutor that day, and had hopes that he had left me for a season; but, alas, what hope was there of my relief after the declaration I had so lately heard! I took up my lodgings that night in a small miserable inn in the village of Ancrum, of which the people seemed alike poor and ignorant.

Ancrum's remarks! Why, the boy wouldn't go to a trade, not if he were sent! At the gate he ran against David, who came hastily out of the farmyard to intercept him.

Ancrum had set him thinking, and so stirred his conscience in various indirect and unforeseen ways, Sandy had been a terror to him; the dead man had gained a mysterious hold on the living.

Ancrum, but a fierce distaste for chapels and ministers had been growing on him, and he had gradually seen less and less of the man who had been the kind comrade and teacher of his early childhood.

Ancrum, he thinks? Perhaps he'll tak th' place an try? I'd not gie him as mich wage as ud fill his stomach i' th' week--noa, I'd not, not if yo wor to ask _me_--a bletherin windy chap as iver I saw.