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In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night. "Will you tell Mrs Inglethwaite or Miss Rubislaw that I have come in, please?" I said, and turned into the sitting-room.
I discussed the problem after breakfast as I sat and smoked my pipe in the heathery garden of Strathmyrtle, a shooting-lodge at which we were being hospitably entertained by Kitty's uncle, Sir John Rubislaw, a retired Admiral of the Fleet, whose forty years' official connection with Britannia's realm betrayed itself in a nautical roll, syncopated by gout, and what I may describe as a hurricane-deck voice.
I could tell from Robin's voice that he was nursing some immense joke, but he betrayed no inclination to share it with us. Kitty went on. "He was sitting in a pew with some farmery-looking people. There was a patriarchal old man, very stately and imposing, rather like like " "Moses?" I suggested. "No. I don't think Moses was like that." I had got as far as 'Aar' when Lady Rubislaw said "Elijah?"
But that evening, as the ladies were having their candles lit at the foot of the staircase, I heard Robin say to Dolly "Will you come with us to-morrow?" Dolly seemed to consider, and was about to reply, when Dermott, who never seemed very far away now, cut in. "Too late, Fordyce! Miss Rubislaw has promised to come and load for me in my butt to-morrow afternoon."
The dirty-faced boy was my brother-in-law, Master Gerald Rubislaw, the clip-administerer was Dicky Lever, and the gigantic and taciturn navvy was my Secretary!
"Well, I did a first-class G to begin with, and was well on with the Rubislaw all in capitals: I thought it would look best that way when suddenly a great hand reached over my shoulder and grabbed my knife. It was Stinker, of course." "St " "Oh, I forgot to tell you that. We call him 'Stinker' now.
As I have said, he was brindled, and gray like Rubislaw granite; his hair short, hard, and close, like a lion's; his body thick-set, like a little bull, a sort of compressed Hercules of a dog.
James Skene, Laird of Rubislaw, who while travelling in France kept an accurate diary, enlivened by a number of clever drawings, all of which he placed at the novelist's disposal. From this journal, says Lockhart, Sir Walter took the substance of the original introduction to Quentin Durward. As Mr.
As I have said, he was brindled, and gray like Rubislaw granite; his hair short, hard, and close, like a lion's; his body thickset, like a little bull a sort of compressed Hercules of a dog.
A poor man from Jedburgh who was on his way to Hawick for the purpose of attending one of these markets, as he was passing over that side of Rubislaw which is nearest the Teviot, was suddenly alarmed by a frightful and unaccountable noise. The sound, as he supposed, proceeded from an immense number of female voices, but no objects whence it could come were visible.
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