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"Well, I turns agin to the door; but it's the old story over again rain, rain, rain; spatter, spatter, spatter, 'I can't stop here with these true Brittons, sais I, 'guess I'll go and see the old Squire: he is in his study.
'We are going abroad, she said; 'Uncle Oliver thinks it a part of my education, and declares he will not have me behind the Miss Brittons. We are bound straight for Switzerland. 'Lucky girl, said Louis. 'I'm sure I don't care for it, said Clara; 'mountains and pictures are not a bit in my line, unless I had Isabel and you, Louis, to make me care.
"Well, I turns agin to the door; but it's the old story over again rain, rain, rain; spatter, spatter, spatter, 'I can't stop here with these true Brittons, sais I, 'guess I'll go and see the old Squire: he is in his study.
Britton retorted, smiling through his tears, "for I've got a share now in the sweetest daughter on earth!" "Yes, papa," Kate laughingly rejoined, "there are three of us Brittons now; the Underwoods are in the minority." Which, though a new view of the situation to that gentleman, seemed eminently satisfactory.
I do not know what might have ensued had not the proprietress of the place appeared at that instant, coming from the kitchen. She was the cook as well, and she was large enough to occupy the space of at least three Brittons. She was huge beyond description. "Wass iss?" she demanded, pausing aghast. Her voice was a high, belying treble. I shall not attempt to describe in detail all that followed.
Now, according to the histories, this all-important discussion began and ended on September 1, but our Itinerist had only arrived in Edinburgh the night before the first, and gives us to understand that he owed his invitation to be present to the fact that whilst in Edinburgh he and his friends had had the honour to have several lords and members of Parliament to dine, and that these guests informed him 'of the grand day when the Act was to be passed or rejected. The Itinerist's account is too particular for he gives the result of the voting to admit of any possibility of a mistake, and he describes how several of the members came afterwards to his lodgings, and, so he writes, 'embraced us with all the outward marks of love and kindness, and seemed mightily pleased at what was done, and told us we should now be no more English and Scotch, but Brittons. In the matter of nomenclature, at all events, the promises of the Union have not been carried out.
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