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The veil between thickened; she vanished; there were only the white particles of the dissolving or the forming world. The two kept silence. Twilight deepened, night came, the snow ceased to fall for a time, then began again, but less thickly. One hour went by, two, three. Then came Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay, riding, and with them horses for the two who waited at Skene's cot.
We have the type delineated admiringly in Miss Yonge's "Heartsease," bitterly in Miss Skene's "Use and Abuse," facetiously in the Clarence Bulbul of "Our Street." "Hang it! has not everybody written an Eastern book? I should like to meet anybody in society now who has not been up to the Second Cataract.
Mr. Skene's Reminiscences. See Moore's Life of Sheridan, vol. i. p. 191. This work was published late in 1825. Burns's Vision. Lindsay's Chronicles of Scotland 2 vols. Edin. 1814, pp. 246-7. Mr.
He sowed my field with one hand, and as liberally scattered the tares with the other." Mr. Skene's Reminiscences. These two gentlemen were at this time Directors of the Bank of Scotland. Sir W. Forbes and Co.'s Banking House. An extract from what is probably the letter to Laidlaw written on this day was printed in Chambers's Journal for July 1845. The italics are the editor's:
It would also have been curious to learn the unbiased impression which the different works created on the mind of such a man as Lord Kinnedder, before the collision of public opinion had suffused its influence over the opinions of people in general in this matter. Skene's Reminiscences.
Skene's Reminiscences. Sair back and sair banes Carrying the Lord of Morphey's stanes. Border Minstrelsy, vol. iii. pp. 360, 365. 126 Princes Street. George Dempster of Skibo had just married a daughter of the House of Arniston.
Skene's argument rests mainly on the names "Johanna" and "Magnus," by itself an insecure foundation, and one which it is hoped to explain or remove, adopting the argument from "Magnus," a name which constantly recurs, and rejecting the argument from "Johanna," a name which never again appears, in this family.
She did not go to Skene's. We can hear no word of her from any. Her grandfather and I and the men at White Farm looked for her through the night. This morning there's an alarm sent up and down the dale." "What harm could happen " "She might have strayed into some lonely place fallen hurt herself. There were gipsies seen the other day over by Windyedge.
Skene's house was No. 126 Princes Street. Scott's written answer has been preserved: "MY DEAR SKENE, A thousand thanks for your kind proposal. But I am a solitary monster by temper, and must necessarily couch in a den of my own. I should not, I assure you, have made any ceremony in accepting your offer had it at all been like to suit me.
Dined at Skene's, where we met Lord Elgin and Mr. Stewart, a son of Sir M. Shaw Stewart, whom I knew and liked, poor man. Talked among other things and persons of Sir J. Campbell of Ardkinglas, who is now here. He is happy in escaping from his notorious title of Callander of Craigforth. In my youth he was a black-leg and swindler of the first water, and like Pistol did
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