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Our party are about to disperse "Like youthful steers unyoked, east, north, and south." I am not sorry, being one of those whom too much mirth always inclines to sadness. The missing so many of my own family, together with the serious inconveniences to which I have been exposed, gave me at present a desire to be alone. The Skenes return to Edinburgh, so does Mr.
Let them write hymns and paraphrases if they will, but let us have still "All people that on earth do dwell." Law and devotion must lose some of their dignity as often as they adopt new fashions. May 30. The Skenes came in to supper last night. Dr. Scott of Haslar Hospital came to breakfast. He is a nephew of Scott of Scalloway, who is one of the largest proprietors in Shetland.
Her respect for Lydia remained so great that she never complained to her of Cashel save on one occasion, when he had shown a bishop, whose house had been recently broken into and robbed, how to break a burglar's back in the act of grappling with him. The Skenes returned to Australia and went their way there, as Mrs. Byron did in England, in the paths they had pursued for years before.
Dined at Sir John Hay's a large party; Skenes there, the Newenhams and others, strangers. In the morning a meeting of Oil Gas Committee. The concern lingers a little; "It may do weel, for ought it's done yet, But only it's no just begun yet." December 10. A stormy and rainy day. Walked from the Court through the rain. I don't dislike this.
In eating, as, indeed, was then the case all over Britain, the guests used their knives called skenes, or the large poniards named dirks, without troubling themselves by the reflection that they might occasionally have served different or more fatal purposes. At the upper end of the table stood a vacant seat, elevated a step or two above the floor.
True, the mountaineers have not our forms and mode of doing battle in the lists, but they have those which are as effectual to the destruction of human life, and so that the mortal game is played, and the stake won and lost, what signifies it whether these Gael fight with sword and lance, as becomes belted knights, or with sandbags, like the crestless churls of England, or butcher each other with knives and skenes, in their own barbarous fashion?
Jerome and others, now and then cannibal Celts, with their saffron scarfs, and skenes, and darts, and glibs of long hair hanging over their hypo-gorillaceous visages, coming to the prophet maiden, and asking her to take their land, for they could make no decent use of it themselves; and look after them, body and soul, for they could not look after themselves; and pray for them to her God, for they did not know how to pray to Him themselves.
Many recollections die with him and with poor Terry. I dined with the Skenes in a family way. July 10, Had a hard day's work at the Court till about two, and then came home to prepare for the country. I made a talis qualis arrangement of my papers, which I trust I shall be able to complete at Abbotsford, for it will do much good. I wish I had a smart boy like Red Robin the tinker.
Constable, it seems, who was to have set off in the last week of December, dawdled here till in all human probability his going or staying became a matter of mighty little consequence. He could not be there till Monday night, and his resources must have come too late. Dined with the Skenes. January 17. James Ballantyne this morning good honest fellow, with a visage as black as the crook.
The grand and interesting consists in ideas, not in words. A clever thing of this kind will have a run "Little to say, But wrought away, And went out to dine with the Skenes to-day." Rather too many dinner engagements on my list. Must be hard-hearted. I cannot say I like my solitary days the worst by any means.
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