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The unexpected pleasure of your return made me quite forget. But won't he revel in you, old boy!" "I don't know about that," said Linklater gloomily. "I've a kind of feeling that I've dropped out of this combination." "What?" Then Martin fell upon him.
Man, I was in the book business mysel', till I changed it for something a wee bit more lucrative. I was on the road for three years for Andrew Matheson. Ye ken the name Paternoster Row I've forgotten the number. I had a kind of ambition to start a book-sellin' shop of my own and to make Linklater o' Paisley a big name in the trade.
"But what about you, Dunn?" asked Linklater, with a kind of curious uncertainty in his voice, as if dreading a tale of calamity. "Oh, I've loafed about town a little, golfing a bit and slumming a bit for a chap that got ill, and in spare moments looking after Martin here." "And the International?" Dunn hesitated. "Come on, old chap," said Martin, "take your medicine."
The reply was, that he was not to be spoken withal, being then employed in cooking a mess of cock-a-leekie for the king's own mouth. "Tell him," said Moniplies, "that it is a dear countryman of his, who seeks to converse with him on matter of high import." "A dear countryman?" said Linklater, when this pressing message was delivered to him. "Well, let him come in and be d d, that I should say sae!
I've got new light upon this 'damning' business. I've come to regard it as the refuge of the mentally inert, not to say imbecile, who have lost the capacity for originality and force in speech. For me, I am cured." "Ah!" said Linklater. "Dunn again, I suppose." "Not a bit! Clear case of psychological reaction.
Smoke that with reverence." "Ah," sighed Linklater, as he drew in his first whiff, "there is still something left to live for. Now tell me, what about Cameron?" "Oh, Cameron! Cameron's all up a tree. The last time I saw him, by Jove, I was glad it was in the open daylight and on a frequented street.
"Weel, my lord," said Richie, "I did not tell you his name and quality at first, because I thought you would be affronted at the like of him having to do in your lordship's affairs. But mony a man climbs up in Court by waur help. It was just Laurie Linklater, one of the yeomen of the kitchen, that was my father's apprentice lang syne."
Ere Lord Glenvarloch had time to speculate upon this action, the man approached with anxiety, and said "Good lord, my Lord Glenvarloch! why will you endanger yourself thus?" "You know me then, my friend?" said Nigel. "Not much of that, my lord but I know your honour's noble house well. My name is Laurie Linklater, my lord." "Linklater!" repeated Nigel. "I should recollect
"The point in question is, how am I to get speech of the king?" "The king, my lord!" said Linklater in astonishment; "why, will not that be rushing wilfully into danger? scalding yourself, as I may say, with your own ladle?"
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