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"Cudna we gang an' see the maister the day?" said Blue Peter, changing the subject. He meant Mr Graham, the late schoolmaster of Portlossie, whom the charge of heretical teaching had driven from the place. "We canna weel du that till we hear whaur he is. The last time Miss Horn h'ard frae him, he was changin' his lodgin's, an' ye see the kin' o' a place this Lon'on is," answered Malcolm.
Ye was naething but a fisher body upon a sma' watter i' the hert o' the hills, 'at wasna even saut; an' what can the thochts that gaed throu' your fish catchin' brain hae to du wi' sic a sicht 's this? I won'er gien at this moment there be anither man in a' Lon'on sittin' readin' that epistle o' yours but Blue Peter here?
'That there cheese, that you're looking at so cur'ously, said the waggoner, has been a great traveller; for it came all the way down from Lon'on, and now it's going all the way up again back, on account of not finding the gentleman at home; and the man that booked it told me as how it came from foreign parts.
Is't possible the auld body kent something 'at was jist as necessar' to ilka man, the busiest in this croodit mairt, to ken an' gang by, as it was to Jeames an' the lave o' the michty apostles themsel's? For me, I dinna doobt it but hoo it sud ever be onything but an auld warld story to the new warld o' Lon'on, I think it wad bleck Maister Graham himsel' til imaigine."
"Then, Colambre, you are very disobliging," said Lady Clonbrony, with an expression of disappointment and displeasure; "for your father says if you don't marry Miss Broadhurst, we can't live in Lon'on another winter." This said which had she been at the moment mistress of herself, she would not have betrayed Lady Clonbrony abruptly quitted the room.
We have given him as fine a complexion amongst us as if he had been out hunting these three hours; have not we, Grace? 'When Colambre has been a season or two more in Lon'on, he'll not be so easily put out of countenance, said Lady Clonbrony; 'you don't see young men of fashion here blushing about nothing.
Though she never said a word to me, or any one, I knew how it was, through all her coldness And to be sure, when you was in Lon'on so much with us, all the town said, as all the country did afore, that to be sure it was to be a match But then that sad affair, with that artfullest of women, that took you off from all that was good, and away, the Lord knows where, to foreign parts!
"The dickons!" cried a Somerset yeoman: "The Lon'on madam has opened the five-barred gate that beat all the other women's fingers, and gathered the finest elder-flowers, and caught the fattest chicken; and they tell me she has repeated verses to poor crazed Isaac, till she has lulled him into a fine sleep.
But, on the other hand, living in Lon'on, and making you the handsome allowance you ought to have, are, both together, more than your father can afford, without inconvenience, he tells me. 'I assure you, mother, I shall be content 'No, no; you must not be content, child, and you must hear me. You must live in a becoming style, and make a proper appearance.
And I declare now, I should like to see those poor people, and that widow O'Neil. I do assure you, I think I was happier at home; only that one gets, I don't know how, a notion, one's nobody out of Lon'on. But, after all, there's many drawbacks in Lon'on and many people are very impertinent, I'll allow and if there's a woman in the world I hate, it is Mrs.
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