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Updated: June 14, 2025
She didn't a like to leave her jack in a bandbox behind her; and so missee forsooth forgot her tom-tit, and master my jerry whissle an please you galloped after with it. And then with a whoop he must amble to Lunnun; and then with a halloo he must caper to France! She'll deposit the rhino; yet Nicodemus has a no notion of a what she'd be at!
When his mirth had subsided, he inquired what Nicholas meant to do; on his informing him, to go straight to London, he shook his head doubtfully, and inquired if he knew how much the coaches charged to carry passengers so far. 'No, I do not, said Nicholas; 'but it is of no great consequence to me, for I intend walking. 'Gang awa' to Lunnun afoot! cried John, in amazement.
"My present way of thinking," resumed Petito, "is in consequence of my having, with my own eyes and ears, witnessed and overheard his lordship's behaviour and words, the morning he was coming away from Lunnun for Ireland; when he was morally certain nobody was up, nor overhearing nor overseeing him, there did I notice him, my lady, stopping in the antechamber, ejaculating over one of Miss Nugent's gloves, which he had picked up.
But Philip was right, for just then the loud and shrill whistle of the engine was heard as it started again, after setting down one solitary little passenger in the shape of Fred Morris, who looked sadly disappointed to find no one there to receive him but Jem Barnes, the porter, who stared very hard at the young stranger from Lunnun.
"I thought Sir Jovian had been a kind master," said Harriet. "This was not Sir Jovian. Poor gentleman, he was not often out a-hunting. This was one of the fine young rakish fellows from Lunnun as were always swarming about my Lady, like bees over that maybush. Sir Thomas Donne, I think they called him.
Howsoever, I don't so much complain of you as of some others, and I'm agreeable to make you a civil answer, though I give notice that I'm not a-going to be drawed like a badger. Will Jenny be here soon? No she won't. Where is she? She's gone up to Lunnun." "Did she go last night?" I asked. "Did she go last night? Ah! She went last night," he answered with a sulky jerk of his head.
Look that there's not another "Spotted Dog" set up augh! bother!" "But what would my wife say, if I took the cat? she can't abide its name." "Let me alone to talk to your wife. What would she say if I bring her from Lunnun Town a fine silk gown, or a neat shawl, with a blue border blue becomes her; or a tay-chest that will do for you both, and would set off the little back parlour.
And sae maun e'en just commit your ways to the Lord, and put your trust intil him. Auld Cuthbert and mesel' pray for your leddyship ilka day, that ye may be deleevered fra the spoilers, and fra a' those wha gang about to wark you wae. Me laird hae gane his ways up to Lunnun, as I tauld your leddyship.
Look that there's not another 'Spotted Dog' set up augh! bother!" "But what would my wife say, if I took the cat? she can't abide its name." "Let me alone to talk to your wife. What would she say if I bring her from Lunnun Town a fine silk gown, or a neat shawl, with a blue border blue becomes her; or a tay-chest that will do for you both, and would set off the little back parlour.
The usual inquiry and answer followed, and the officers got a glimpse of the object. The stranger was distant half a league, and he was seen very indistinctly on account of the haze; but seen he was. "'Tis a xebec," growled the master, who was one of the grumblers of the day "a fellow with his hold crammed with a wine that would cover the handsomest woman's face in Lunnun with wrinkles."
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