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"Upon the whole, therefore," said Dwining, "your knighthood has escaped well, and, saving the lack of your hand, a mischance beyond remedy, you ought rather to rejoice than complain; for no barber chirurgeon in France or England could have more ably performed the operation than this churl with one downright blow."
"Trifle not," replied the knight; "I mean the glee maiden, who lately dwelt in this chamber with you." "She is gone, they tell me," said Catharine "gone about an hour since." "And whither?" said Dwining. "How," answered Catharine, "should I know which way a professed wanderer may choose to travel?
"So please your Highness," answered his counsellor, "if you would use the hand of the mediciner, Dwining he writes like a clerk." "Hath he a hint of the circumstances? Is he possessed of them?" "Fully," said Ramorny; and, stepping to the window, he called Dwining from the boat.
On the failure of the company, Mr Dwining was observed by those who were present to be particularly distressed: his salary being his all; but he said little, and went thoughtfully home. Some days after he was seen walking by himself with a pale face, a heavy eye, and slow step all tokens of a sorrowful heart. Soon after, he was missed altogether; nobody saw him.
It was the fashion to be strong and healthy in that house, and I was never really ill but I came as a little stunted, dwining cockney, and so I was considered ever after never quite comfortable, often forgetting myself in enjoyment, paying for it afterwards, but quite used to it. We all thought it was "only Fanny," and part of my London breeding.
"Surely," said Bailie Craigdallie, "it would be to no purpose to stir at court without Sir Patrick Charteris's countenance: the ready answer would be, 'Go to your provost, you borrel loons. So, neighbours and townsmen, if you will stand by my side, I and our pottingar Dwining will repair presently to Kinfauns, with Sim Glover, the jolly smith, and gallant Oliver Proudfute, for witnesses to the onslaught, and speak with Sir Patrick Charteris, in name of the fair town."
Wilmet's satisfaction was not increased when she encountered Sibby. 'Ah, my darling Missie dear, ye're the jewel that's been longed for! The whole house has been mad entirely, and lost widout you; the children rampaging and playing pranks, and Miss Cherry dwining and pining to a skeleton, so that but for Master Clem and that holy woman, the Sisther, 'tis scarce alive ye'd have found her.
"Neighbour Henry," said he, "we came here to consult, and not to quarrel. As one of the fathers of the Fair City, I command thee to forego all evil will and maltalent you may have against Master Pottingar Dwining." "He is too poor a creature, bailie," said Henry Gow, "for me to harbour feud with I that could destroy him and his booth with one blow of my forehammer."
"Just as if the pieces of brass that were screaming a minute since should pretend to call those notes their own which are breathed through them by a frowsy trumpeter." "Wretched man!" said Catharine, "either be silent or turn thy thoughts to the eternity on the brink of which thou art standing." "And what is that to thee?" answered Dwining.
He did not speak out very plainly, however, fearful, perhaps, of the malignant interpretation which might be derived from any appearance of his flinching from the assertion of his daughter's reputation. Dwining seemed to agree with him in opinion, but spoke more cautiously than in the morning.
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