A bonny warlock, that, isn't it?

"It's no job for a decent lass to be wandering at the tail of a crazy warlock.

But of them all she counted on the last, the best, the noblest for Alice,that was I. Old Johnny Graeme was the partner in what had been my father's house, and for fifteen years it had gone prospering as never house did yet, and making Mrs. Strathsay bitterer; and Johnny Graeme, a little wizened warlock, had never once stopped work long enough to play at play and reckon his untold gold.