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Updated: May 18, 2025
"The Lord o' lords be thankit, my lord!" said Blue Peter: "the puir man has a freen' this day." Then replacing his bonnet he said "An' what'll be yer lordship's wull?" "First and foremost, Peter, that my best freen', efter my auld daddy and the schulemaister, 's no to turn again' me 'cause I hed a markis an' neither piper nor fisher to my father."
He passed his arm under that of the constable, and drew him aside. "Vell, vell," growled Sharples, after he had listened to the other's remonstrances, "it shall be done. But it's confounded inconvenient. One don't often get sich a vindfal as the Markis " "Or such a customer as Mr. Wild," edged in Quilt. "Now, then, Saint Giles!" interposed Sheppard, "are we to be kept here all night?"
Sam refreshed himself with a kiss, and read as follows: 'MARKIS GRAN 'By DORKEN 'Wensdy. 'My DEAR SAMMLE,
'Have you any little thing of that kind in hand, sir? inquired the favoured gentleman in blue, drawing a toothpick from his waistcoat pocket. 'Not exactly, said Sam. 'There's no daughters at my place, else o' course I should ha' made up to vun on 'em. As it is, I don't think I can do with anythin' under a female markis.
"`Of course I was, says he, tamin' down a little, `an' I'd bin one o' them yet if not food for worms by this time if it hadn't bin for a dook as took pity on me. "`What's a dook? says I. "`A dook? says he. `Why, he's a dook, you know; a sort o' markis somewheres between a lord an' a king.
"There ye are at yer English again! an' misgugglin' Scriptur' wi' 't an' a' this upo' Setterday nicht maist the Sawbath day! Weel, I ha'e aye h'ard 'at Lon'on was an awfu' place, but I little thoucht the verra air o' 't wad sae sune turn an honest laad like Ma'colm MacPhail intill a scoffer. But maybe it's the markis o' 'im, an' no the muckle toon 'at's made the differ.
An' I'm thinkin' she beirs the markis gien sae it be sae deid an' gane as he is a grutch yet, for passin' sic an offspring upo' her, an' syne no merryin' her efter an' a', an' the ro'd clear o' baith 'at stude atween them. "But wad fowk du sic awfu' ill things, mem her a merried woman, an' him a merried man?" "There's nae sayin', laddie, what a hantle o' men and some women wad du.
"'I'll cut you off with a shillin', you young dog, as the Markis says to his nephew in the play at the Old Bowery." Fosdick did not venture to wear his new clothes while engaged in his business. This he felt would have been wasteful extravagance.
He was a frien' fowk said, o' the yoong Markis o' Lossie, an' that was hoo 'he cam to sicht. He gaed fleein' aboot, luikin' at this, an' luikin' at that; an' whaur or hoo he fell in wi' HIM, I dinna ken, but or lang the twa o' them was a heap thegither.
"Because, ye see," pursued John, "I was ae day here i' the gairden an' I was jist graftin' a bonny wull rose buss wi' a Hector o' France an' it grew to be the bonniest rose buss in a' the haul gairden whan the markis, no the auld markis, but my leddy's father, cam' up the walk there, an' a bonny young leddy wi' his lordship, as it micht be yersel's twa an' I beg yer pardon, my leddy, but I'm an auld man noo, an' whiles forgets the differs 'atween fowk an' this yoong leddy 'at they ca'd Miss Cam'ell ye kenned her yersel' efterhin', I daursay, Ma'colm he was unco ta'en with her, the markis, as ilka body cud see ohn luikit that near, sae 'at some saich 'at hoo he hed no richt to gang on wi' her that gait, garrin' her believe, gien he wasna gaein' to merry her.
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