It was the scribe of y who replaced certain dialectisms and less usual forms by the common types, e.g. ...

Both stood silent, gazing on each other; Walter was actually lost in admiration of Lady Marchmont's transcendent beauty.

Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, / Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, / Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, / And four lives paid for what the seven had won.

The grandmother … raised her under the dolesome eyes of a multicoloured Virgin Mary.