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"You are displeased with me, Master Heriot," said Lord Glenvarloch, reddening, for he was not deceived by the worthy citizen's affectation of extreme reverence and respect. "By no means, my lord," replied Heriot; "but I have been in France, and have thought it is well to import, along with other more substantial articles, a small sample of that good-breeding which the French are so renowned for."
He was now entitled to wear a wig and gown, place a brass plate with his name upon the door of 17 Heriot Row, and "have the fourth or fifth share of the services of a clerk" whom it is said he didn't even know by sight. For a few months he made some sort of a pretense at practising, but it amounted to very little.
"No fear of that, my dear," said he, pinching one of her plump fingers. "It will be rather a Darby and Joan marriage, of course," she smiled. "Will it?" replied Heriot, with a glint out of the corner of his eye that reminded her forcibly of the late Captain Dunbar. "Oh, Heriot!" she expostulated. "Remember you're the father of a grown-up family."
'Before that rascal dies, my dear, he shall whine like a beggar out in the cold for the tips of your fingers! 'Not if he asks me first, said Janet. This set him off again. He realized her prospective generosity, and contrasted it with my actual obtuseness. Janet changed her tactics. She assumed indifference. But she wanted experience, and a Heriot to help her in playing a part.
I could not contain myself, I wanted so to tell her what had befallen Heriot overnight, while he was batting, and the whole ground cheering his hits. I on one side of her whispered: 'I say, Julia, my dear, I say, do you know... And Temple on the other: 'Miss Julia, I wish you'd let me tell you
"With you, my lord, most willingly," said Nigel; and they were turning away accordingly, when George Heriot, with the formality belonging to his station, observed, that, "as their business concerned Lord Glenvarloch, he had better remain, to make himself master of it, and witness to it."
Although they had remained several years in that country, and could not form the smallest idea of the wilds of America, the force of blood predominated over that of education: no sooner did they find themselves at liberty than they tore their clothes in pieces, and went to traverse the forests in search of their countrymen, whose mode of life appeared to them far more agreeable than that which they had led among the French." -Heriot, p. 354.
Temple related that I fell, and was carried all the way from the cricket-field home by Heriot, who would not give me up to the usher. I was in Julia's charge three days. Every time I spoke of her father and Heriot, she cried, 'Oh, hush! and had tears on her eyelids. When I was quite strong again, I made her hear me out. She held me and rocked over me like a green tree in the wind and rain.
'And if you get Walter Heriot to come to you, Harry Richmond, it'll be better for him, I'm sure, she added, and naively: 'I 'd like to meet him up at the Grange. Temple, she said, had left the Navy and was reading in London for the Bar good news to me. 'You have not told us anything about your princess, Harry, Janet observed on the ride home. 'Do you take her for a real person, Janet?
When the heir of an estate entered into possession he had to pay a "relief," or heriot, to the lord. This soon became a source of oppression in the crown; and enormous sums were exacted from the great vassals. The lord was not more sparing of his men. He had another mode of extortion.
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