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Mac-Candlish, throned in a comfortable easy-chair lined with black leather, was regaling herself, and a neighbouring gossip or two, with a cup of genuine tea, and at the same time keeping a sharp eye upon her domestics, as they went and came in prosecution of their various duties and commissions.
Mac-Candlish, whose proclamation of Sampson's disinterested attachment to the young lady had procured him this indefatigable and bounteous scholar. Mac-Morlan was much struck with what he heard.
Mac-Candlish an acute tact in ascertaining the quality of her visitors, and proportioning her reception accordingly: To every guest the appropriate speech was made, And every duty with distinction paid; Respectful, easy, pleasant, or polite 'Your honour's servant! 'Mister Smith, good-night. On the present occasion she was low in her courtesy and profuse in her apologies.
It was, then, in the month of November, about seventeen years after the catastrophe related in the fast chapter, that, during a cold and stormy night, a social group had closed around the kitchen fire of the Gordon Arms at Kippletringan, a small but comfortable inn, kept by Mrs. Mac-Candlish in that village.
One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale. 'Are ye sure the parlour's ready for them, and the fire burning clear, and the chimney no smoking? said the hostess to a chambermaid. She was answered in the affirmative. 'Ane wadna be uncivil to them, especially in their distress, said she, turning to the Deacon. 'Assuredly not, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; assuredly not.
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, said Glossin, "there's been many cases such as that on the record ,doubtless he was seeking revenge where it would be deepest and sweetest." "God pity us!" said Deacon Bearcliff, "we're puir frail creatures when left to oursells! ay, he forgot wha said, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it."
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?"
Mac-Candlish, whose proclamation of Sampson's disinterested attachment to the young lady had procured him this indefatigable and bounteous scholar. Mac-Morlan was much struck with what he heard.
One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale. 'Are ye sure the parlour's ready for them, and the fire burning clear, and the chimney no smoking? said the hostess to a chambermaid. She was answered in the affirmative. 'Ane wadna be uncivil to them, especially in their distress, said she, turning to the Deacon. 'Assuredly not, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; assuredly not.
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