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I felt this very trite but melancholy truth in all its force the other day, when a packet with a black seal arrived, containing a letter addressed to me by my late excellent friend Mrs. Martha Bethune Baliol, and marked with the fatal indorsation, "To be delivered according to address, after I shall be no more."
The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, reviewed in the Quarterly, Oct. 1827. See also "On Planting Waste Lands," in Misc. Prose Works, vol. xxi. pp. 1-76. Daughter of Mrs. Maclean Clephane, and afterwards Marchioness of Northampton. Scott's indorsation of this letter is characteristic "Prodigious, bold request, Tom Thumb."
I delight in the analecta, the collectanea, as I may call them, of the preceding day's dinner, which appear on such occasions And see, there is Jenny going to ring the dinner-bell." Be this letter delivered with haste haste post-haste! Ride, villain, ride, for thy life for thy life for thy life. Ancient Indorsation of Letters of Importance. Leaving Mr.
He is to consider, that, in general, bills pass through a number of hands, by indorsation from one to another, and that if the bill comes to be protested afterwards and returned, it goes back again through all those hands with this mark of the tradesman's disgrace upon it, namely, that it has been accepted, but that the man who accepted it is not able to pay it, than which nothing can expose the tradesman more.
The children of the village venerate him for his gentility, but wonder also at him for a gentle indorsation of the person, not amounting to a hump, or, if one, then like that of the buffalo, and coronative of as mild qualities. The distasteful country, however, still remains, and the clouds still hang over it.
I delight in the analecta, the collectanea, as I may call them, of the preceding day's dinner, which appear on such occasions And see, there is Jenny going to ring the dinner-bell." Be this letter delivered with haste haste post-haste! Ride, villain, ride, for thy life for thy life for thy life. Ancient Indorsation of Letters of Importance. Leaving Mr.
Woodhouse's objections to the marriage of his daughter are overpowered by the fears of house-breakers, and the comfort which he hopes to derive from having a stout son-in-law resident in the family; and the facile affections of Harriet Smith are transferred, like a bank bill by indorsation, to her former suitor, the honest farmer, who had obtained a favourable opportunity of renewing his addresses.
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