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His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps. Thus accoutred, he stalked into the midst of the apartment, and announced his errand in brief phrase: 'Yer horses are ready. 'You go with me yourself then, landlord? 'I do, as far as Perth; where ye may be supplied with a guide to Embro', as your occasions shall require.
"Ya-as," yawned Gourlay; "it gives you the full flavour of the we-eed." The Deacon glimmered over him with his eyes. "The weed," said he. "Jutht tho! Imphm. The weed." Then worthy Mister Allardyce tried another opening. "But, dear me!" he cried, "I'm forgetting entirely. I must congratulate ye. Ye've been doing wonderth, they tell me, up in Embro."
Not even Embro was offended with these last words of his: the others laughed; Embro smiled, though with a certain sourness. "Pooh, Julius!" said he; "what are you talking about? Science is the examination of facts, and what has imagination to do with that? Reason, sir, is what you want!" "My dear Embro," said Julius, "there are several kinds of facts.
It was therefore wi' a sore heart that I heard this day the doleful tidings frae Embro', and moreover, that I hae listened to the outbreathings this night of the heaviness wherewith the news hae oppressed you a'. Sure am I, that frae the provocation given to the people of Scotland by the King's miscounselled majesty, nothing but tears and woes can ensue; for by the manner in which they hae already rebutted the aggression, he will in return be stirred to aggrieve them still farther.
"Have you read it yourself, Julius?" asked Embro, amid the laughter of his neighbours. "No," said Julius carelessly; "and if it's a hospital case I don't want to read it." "What!" said Embro, with heavy irony. "You say that? You, a pupil of the great Dubois and the greater Charbon! But here comes a greater than Charbon the celebrated Dr. Lefevre himself.
A fule and his siller's shune parted. Eh, but ye're a green callant!" he cried, "an' a veecious, tae! Cleikin' up wi' baubee-joes!" "If you dare to speak of the young lady ..." I began. "Leddy!" he cried. "Haud us and safe us, whatten leddy? Ca' thon a leddy? The toun's fu' o' them. Leddies! Man, it's weel seen ye're no very acquaint in Embro!" A clap of anger took me.
"I'll hear from Sir Paitrick, wull I?" repeated Bishopriggs when he was left by himself. "Sir Paitrick will wark naething less than a meeracle if he finds Sawmuel Bishopriggs at the Cowgate, Embro!" He laughed softly over his own cleverness; and withdrew to a lonely place in the plantation, in which he could consult the stolen correspondence without fear of being observed by any living creature.
His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps. Thus accoutred, he stalked into the midst of the apartment, and announced his errand in brief phrase: 'Yerhorses are ready. 'You go with me yourself then, landlord? 'I do, as far as Perth; where you may be supplied With a guide to Embro', as your occasions shall require.
"There you are!" quoth Embro, in triumph. "But," continued Julius, "I don't therefore nail that case down as false." "Do you mean to say," exclaimed Embro, "that you have lived all your years, and studied science at the Salpétrière, or what they call science there, and studied and seen God knows what else besides, and you can't pronounce an opinion from all you know on a case of this sort?"
"I do not believe there is," said the journalist; "but " "Don't let us lose ourselves in metaphysics," broke in Embro. Then, turning to Courtney, whose direct intelligent gaze seemed to disconcert him, he said, "Now, Julius, you've seen, I daresay, a good many things we have not seen, have you ever seen or known a case like this we're talking about?" "I can't say I have," said Julius.
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