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Even his most mannered characters, his humourists in the seventeenth century sense, of whom Dugald Dalgetty is the prince and chief the true commander of the whole stift of this Dunkelspiel stand poles asunder from those inventions of Dickens and of some others who are ticketed for us by a gesture or a phrase repeated ad nauseam.
Starke and Miss Bannatyne, and Andrew and Dugald, and all of you kind friends, put your heads close together to hear a piece of intelligence which will, I know, rejoice your kind hearts.
"John, I want ye to meet my clerk, Sven Larsen. He's the best clerk I ever had." McNabb glanced into the bearded face that blinked stupidly at him. "Ye haven't be'n over favored with clerks, I'd say, Dugald. But how are ye fixed for quarters?" Murchison laughed. "I guess we can rig up a bunk for ye, John." "It ain't myself I was thinkin' about. It's the lass.
I have spoken of this view as represented by Dugald Stewart; and Brown had, according to his custom, moved a step further by diminishing the list of original first principles, and making 'virtue' simply equivalent to 'feelings' of approval and disapproval.
Star: "hitch your wagon to a star," 252, 253; stars in poetry, 324. Sterling, J. Hutchinson, letter to, 282, 283. Stewart, Dugald, allusion, 16. Story, Joseph, literary rank, 33. Stuart, Moses, literary rank, 33. Studio, illustration, 20. Summer, description, 117. Sumner, Charles: literary rank, 33: the outrage on, 211; Saturday Club, 223.
Ou! aye! forgi'e me, your leddyship. I'm e'en but a puir, auld, doitted bodie. I e'en thocht ye were talking o' yon misguided quean in the cell. The Honorable Mistress Dugald. She'll be like yoursel', intereested in yon lassie; and aiblins ain o' the leddy direectors o' the Magdalen." "I think you are a fool.
He might have had the luck to see more battles in busier parts of the world, as General Dugald did, or Colin, who led the Royal Scots at Salamanca, Vittoria, and Waterloo; but he might have done worse, for he of all those gallants came home at the end a hale man, with neither sabre-cut nor bullet. To give him his due he was willing enough to risk them all.
"Madam!" exclaimed the inspector, in astonishment. "I fear it is as I have hinted, sir," persisted Claudia. "But who has been murdered?" "I suspect that a harmless old female servant, named Katie Mortimer who became aware of a dangerous secret, has been." "And by whom?" "I fear by a woman called Faustina Dugald and a man named Alick Frisbie."
I wish it was our own; would I not show them! You are not hearing a word I am saying, Dugald." He paused in a feverish movement in his chair, thrust off from him with a clatter of dishes and a spilling of milk the breakfast still unfinished, and stared with annoyance at the General.
Every vestige of color had fled from it; his brow, cheeks, and even lips were marble white; his voice shook in saying "good-morning," and his hand shook in lifting the "Banff Beacon" from the table. While Claudia was watching him in wonder and amazement, there came a flutter and a rustle, and Mrs. Dugald entered the room all brightness and smiles.
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