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He inquired the price of tea and sugar, and spoke of providing himself for the year; he gave Mrs. Mac-Candlish directions to have a handsome entertainment in readiness for a party of five friends whom he intended to invite to dine with him at the Gordon Arms next Saturday week; and, lastly, he gave a half-crown to Jock Jabos, whom the hostler had deputed to hold his steed.
Mac-Candlish, and hastened to light the way with all the imperative bustle which an active landlady loves to display on such occasions. 'Young man, said the Deacon to the servant, filling a glass, 'ye'll no be the waur o' this, after your ride. 'Not a feather, sir; thank ye, your very good health, sir. 'And wha may your master be, friend?
The dialogue then proceeded as follows: 'A fine frosty morning, Mrs. Mac-Candlish. 'Ay, sir; the morning's weel eneugh, answered the landlady, drily. 'Mrs. Mac-Candlish, I wish to know if the justices are to dine here as usual after the business of the court on Tuesday? 'Stay a moment, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; why, you are in a prodigious hurry, my good friend!
And the Laird was three years married without having a family; and he was sae left to himsell, that it was thought he held ower muckle troking and communing wi' that Meg Merrilies, wha was the maist notorious witch in a' Galloway and Dumfries-shire baith. 'Aweel, I wot there's something in that, said Mrs. Mac-Candlish; 'I've kenn'd him order her twa glasses o' brandy in this very house.
Glossin immediately went, for the purpose of interrogating our old acquaintance Mrs. Mac-Candlish. The reader may remember that Mr. Glossin did not, according to this good woman's phrase, stand high in her books. She therefore attended his summons to the parlour slowly and reluctantly, and, on entering the room, paid her respects in the coldest possible manner.
Mac-Candlish, bent on baffling his inquiries, 'I canna charge my memory about the matter; there's mair to do in a house like this, I trow, than to look after passengers' hair, or their een, or noses either. 'Then, Mrs.
Mac-Candlish it was the most moving thing he ever saw; 'the death of the grey mare, puir hizzie, was naething till't. This trifling circumstance afterwards had consequences of greater moment to the Dominie. The visitors were hospitably welcomed by Mrs.
Mac-Candlish it was the most moving thing he ever saw; 'the death of the grey mare, puir hizzie, was naething till't. This trifling circumstance afterwards had consequences of greater moment to the Dominie. The visitors were hospitably welcomed by Mrs.
Mac-Candlish were then reinterrogated whether Brown had no arms with him on that unhappy morning. 'None, they said, 'but an ordinary bit cutlass or hanger by his side. Glossin extricated himself from the Deacon's grasp and from the discussion, though not with rudeness; for it was his present interest to buy golden opinions from all sorts of people.
He inquired the price of tea and sugar, and spoke of providing himself for the year; he gave Mrs. Mac-Candlish directions to have a handsome entertainment in readiness for a party of five friends, whom he intended to invite to dine with him at the Gordon Arms next Saturday week; and, lastly, he gave a half-crown to Jock Jabos, whom the hostler had deputed to hold his steed.
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