“Rashleigh,” said his father [Sir Hildebrand], looking fixedly at him, “thou art a sly loon—thou hast ever been too cunning for me, and too cunning for most folks. Have a care thou provena too cunning for thysell—two faces under one hood is no true heraldry[.]"
Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume 1, Ch.11, 1829
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