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After easing himself into a chair, and going through some prefatory huffing and puffing, Goode came out with it. Did Rand believe that Lane Fleming had really been murdered, and was he investigating Fleming's death, after all? "I have always believed that Lane Fleming was murdered," Rand replied. "I also believe that his murderer killed Arnold Rivers, as well.
'I am at your disposal, said Evan. Rose nodded briefly. 'I think I'll smoke the trees, said Laxley, perceptibly huffing. 'You won't come, Ferdinand? 'I only offered to fill up the gap. One does as well as another. Rose flicked her whip, and then declared she would not ride at all, and, gathering up her skirts, hurried back to the house. As Laxley turned away, Evan stood before him.
"Well, I should think you'd better take 'em all, and be done with it! Before I'd be so mean as to set traps!" "Look, Horace," said Grace; "you didn't jump when you ought to, and I'm going to huff your man. See, I blow it, just this way; old Mr. Knight calls it huffing." "Huff away then! but you stole one of those kings. I'll bet you stole it off the board after I jumped it."
My Ladie Meanes shee would have you gett another heire, Sir, for your lands; though it be against my Master The young Captaine, yet she speakes but reason. And now I talke o'th Captaine, Sir, Would you had given him Counsell. Ri. To what? Tho. Before he tooke this huffing trade upon him, To have been a man of peace, I meane a Justice. Nature has made him fit for both alike. Ri.
He who will establish this proposition by authority and huffing discovers his reason to be very weak. For a verbal and scholastic altercation let them have as much appearance as their contradictors; "Videantur sane, non affirmentur modo;" but in the real consequence they draw from it these have much the advantage.
'I am at your disposal, said Evan. Rose nodded briefly. 'I think I'll smoke the trees, said Laxley, perceptibly huffing. 'You won't come, Ferdinand? 'I only offered to fill up the gap. One does as well as another. Rose flicked her whip, and then declared she would not ride at all, and, gathering up her skirts, hurried back to the house. As Laxley turned away, Evan stood before him.
I'd better hide myself a bit." So he got behind a hedge, and fearing lest the sheep should stray, as he kept peeping and looking out every now and then, and huffing them with his cry, "Hus-si, hus-si," this gentleman saw him, and called out, "Ho Sir, Gowda, come here." Gowda is the head man of a village, and the word was used on this occasion respectfully.
'This is all out of the way, son, says the mother. 'If you are in earnest you are undone. 'I am afraid not, says he, 'for I am really afraid she won't have me; after all my sister's huffing and blustering, I believe I shall never be able to persuade her to it. 'That's a fine tale, indeed; she is not so far out of her senses neither. Mrs. Betty is no fool, says the younger sister.
That is the story as it is usually known. But it is fair to add that the tale is differently told in Chambers' Domestic Annals of Scotland, where it is stated that Colonel Stewart was "a huffing, hectoring person," and that he had given "great provocation, and gentlemen afterwards admitted that Stobbs was called upon by the laws of honour to take notice of the offence."
Hodge, who was comforting himself with a last bumper of punch before seeking bed. "Well, Youth," he accosts me, "have you thought better of your surly, huffing manner of this morning and this afternoon?" I told him that I had, and that I desired nothing better than to enter forthwith into the service of Bartholomew Pinchin, Esquire, of Hampstead.
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