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The mole-catcher went off to the square, saying, despondently, that nothing would happen until he was round the corner. No sooner had he rounded the corner than something did happen. A girl who had left Double Dykes with a letter was walking quickly toward Monypenny.
But nevertheless he was forever urging other people to adopt her, assuring them that they would find her a treasure, and even shaking his staff at them when they refused; and he was so uneasy if he did not hear of her several times a day that he made Monypenny the way to and from everywhere, so that he might drop into artful talk with those who had seen her last.
If the weather was fine she usually went for a walk on the sea-front, from Rock-a-Nore to the Monypenny statue. Nothing would induce her to bathe, though even at that hour and season the water was full of young men and women rather shockingly enjoying themselves and each other. After breakfast she wrote laborious letters to Broadhurst, Wilson, Mrs.
Went to Jedburgh to circuit, where found my old friend and schoolfellow, D. Monypenny. Nothing to-day but a pack of riff-raff cases of petty larceny and trash. Dined as usual with the Judge, and slept at my old friend Mr. Shortreed's. The coach to Edinburgh. See "The Braes of Ballochmyle;" Currie's Burns, vol. iv. p. 294.
Corp was sitting on the Monypenny dyke, spitting on a candlestick and then rubbing it briskly against his orange-colored trousers. "Well, how is Grizel?" he asked.
When within one turn of Monypenny they came suddenly upon some boys playing at capey-dykey, a game with marbles that is only known in Thrums. There are thirty-five ways of playing marbles, but this is the best way, and Elspeth knew that Tommy was hungering to look on, but without her, lest he should be accused of sweethearting. So she offered to remain in the background.
Elspeth told some of the Monypenny women about it, and they thought it their duty to point out to Aaron that the Painted Lady and her child were not desirable acquaintances for Tommy and Elspeth. "I dinna ken," he answered sharply, "whether Tommy's a fit acquaintance for Grizel, but I'm very sure o' this, that she's more than a fit acquaintance for him.
In an hour the sensational news was through half of Thrums, of which Monypenny may be regarded as a broken piece, left behind, like the dot of quicksilver in the tube, to show how high the town once rose. For Blinder alone believed that Aaron would be softened. "It was twa threads the smith saw him break," the blind man said, "and Aaron's good at his work. He'll go to London, I tell you."
"But you need not think you are to have everything your own way still. I must get some Monypenny woman to take you till the funeral is over, and after that " "I won't go," said Grizel, determinedly, "I shall stay with mamma till she is buried." He was not accustomed to contradiction, and he stamped his foot. "You shall do as you are told," he said.
See Pope, Epitaphs, 9. David Monypenny had been on the Bench from 1813; he retired in 1830, and died at the age of eighty-one in 1850. Parody on Moore's Minstrel Boy. "Le Pas de la Fontaine des Pleurs." Chroniques Nationales. This hint was taken up in Count Robert of Paris.
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