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"I was e'en taking a spell o' worthy Mess John Quackleben's Flower of a Sweet Savour sawn on the Middenstead of this World," said Andrew, closing his book at my appearance, and putting his horn spectacles, by way of mark, at the place where he had been reading. "And the bees, I observe, were dividing your attention, Andrew, with the learned author?"
"I was e'en taking a spell o' worthy Mess John Quackleben's Flower of a Sweet Savour sawn on the Middenstead of this World," said Andrew, closing his book at my appearance, and putting his horn spectacles, by way of mark, at the place where he had been reading. "And the bees, I observe, were dividing your attention, Andrew, with the learned author?"
"Put them in the malt-kiln," said M'Aulay; "and keep the breadth of the middenstead between them and the M'Donalds; they are but unfriends to each other." Donald now re-entered, his visage considerably lengthened "The tell's i' the folk," he said; "the haill Hielands are asteer, I think. Evan Dhu, of Lochiel, will be here in an hour, with Lord kens how many gillies."
And if the matter had been less serious, it would have been comical to see us thus deserted upon mine own middenstead, as it were. "Bishop Peter of Thorn seems a prelate somewhat difficult of approach," said the Chancellor. "I wonder if we shall ever lay any salt on his tail?" "Let us risk it and go in," said I. "We are putting all our cards on the table, at any rate.
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