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But I would rather have it written on my monument that I died at the desk than live under the recollection of having neglected it. My conscience is free and happy, and would be so if I were to be lodged in the Calton Jail. Were I shirking exertion I should lose heart, under a sense of general contempt, and so die like a poisoned rat in a hole. Dined with Gibson and John Home.
Indeed, she would have been thankful if a merciful insensibility had made her impervious to his questioning eyes. She well knew who he was. He was the real owner of the property she now possessed. The will she had suppressed bequeathed all John Liddell's real and personal property to Miles Errington, only son of his old friend Arthur Errington, of Calton Buildings, London, E. C., and Calcutta.
Chris Calton, a young man of twenty-six, partner in the Roanoke Ledge, had fractured his arm and collar-bone by a fall, and had been brought to the hotel for that rest and attention, under medical advice, which he could not procure in the Roanoke company's cabin. She had a retired, quiet room made ready.
While Burns was in Edinburgh, my father had many interesting walks with him in the neighbourhood of the city. The Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags. Habbie's How, and the nooks in the Pentlands, were always full of interest; and Burns, with his brilliant and humorous conversation, made the miles very short as they strode along.
"Well, really, sir," hesitated Brown, "it's so long ago that I almost forget." Calton gave him a sovereign. "Oh! it's not that, Mr. Calton," said the waiter, pocketing the coin, nevertheless. "But I really do forget." "Try and remember," said Calton, shortly. Brown made a tremendous effort of memory, and at last gave a satisfactory answer. "No, sir, there were none!"
Brian felt the need of rest, so sending a telegram to Calton to call on him in the morning, and another to Madge, that he would be down to luncheon next day, he stayed indoors all day, and amused himself with smoking and reading. He went to bed early, and succeeded in having a sound sleep, so when he awoke next morning, he felt considerably refreshed and invigorated.
In entering the city from this quarter, the road lay through narrow and inconvenient streets, forming an approach no way suited to the general elegance of the place. In 1814, however, a magnificent entrance was commenced across the Calton Hill, between which and Prince's street a deep ravine intervened, which was formerly occupied with old and ill-built streets.
"Oh, it's all right," said Calton, nodding to Kilsip, "there won't be any difficulty in proving an ALIBI. But I say," he added, turning to Sal, "what were they talking about?" "I dunno," answered Sal. "I was at the door, an' they talks that quiet I couldn't 'ear 'em.
'Are you going to Meddlechip's ball? said Calton to Madame. 'Oh, yes, she answered, nodding her head, 'I and Miss Marchurst are both going. 'Who is Mr Meddlechip? asked Kitty, swinging round on the piano- stool. 'He is the most charitable man in Melbourne, said Gaston, with a faint sneer. 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians, said Calton, mockingly.
"And how long was he with her?" asked Calton, who had been listening attentively. "'Bout arf-a-hour," answered Sal. "I takes 'im back to Russell Street 'bout twenty-five minutes to two, 'cause I looked at the clock on the Post Office, an' 'e gives me a sov., an' then he goes a-tearin' up the street like anything."
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