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Sir W. Scott had become a bankrupt by lavish expenditures on his castle, etc. The heaviest blow was, I think, the blow to his pride. Very early he begins to note painfully the different way in which different friends greet him, to remark that some smile as if to say, "Think nothing about it, my lad, it is quite out of our thoughts"; that others adopt an affected gravity, "such as one sees and despises at a funeral," and the best-bred "just shook hands and went on."

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KJV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

WEB: My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;