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Cressey met him at the entry to the guest's lounge giving on the general dining-room. "Damned if you're not a good-lookin' chap, Ban!" he declared with something like envy in his voice. "Thinning down a bit gives you a kind of look. No wonder Mertoun puts in his best licks on your clothes." "Which reminds me that I've neglected even Mertoun," smiled Banneker. "Go ahead in, will you?
Other matters at a stand. A drive down to Mertoun, and engaged to dine there on Sunday first. This consumed the day. August 25. Mr. Adolphus left us this morning after a very agreeable visit. We all dined at Dr. Brewster's. Met Sir John Wright, Miss Haig, etc. Slandered our neighbours, and were good company. Major John Scott there. I did a little more at the review to-day.
But I cannot go on with the tale without I could speak a little Hindostanee a small seasoning of curry-powder. Ferguson will do it if I can screw it out of him. August 26. Encore review. Walked from twelve till three, then drove to Mertoun with Lockhart and Allan. Dined en famille, and home by half-past ten. August 27. Sent off proofs in morning, revised in afternoon. Walked from one till four.
"'Tis an heir, and as lusty as a young lion. Gerald Walter John Percy Mertoun, next Duke of Osmonde! Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!"
'Twas this he felt as if the last two hours he had lived in a dream or had been another man than himself, perhaps some bloody de Mertoun, who had for ages been dry, light dust.
W. Laidlaw at dinner. In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Lawrence Dundas; but Sir Lawrence was a man of family. Walter and Jane dined at Mertoun. January 7. Wrought till twelve, then sallied and walked with Skene for two miles; home and corrected proofs, and to a large amount. Mr. Scrope and George Thomson dined. January 8.
Informed that Banneker already knew Mr. Mallory, his host expressed the hope of being useful to him in any other possible manner "any tips I can give you or anything of that sort, old chap?" so heartily that the newcomer broached the subject of clothes. "Nothin' easier," was the ready response. "I'll take you right down to Mertoun. Just one more and we're off."
Walked at two till four along the thicket, and by the river-side, where I go seldom; I can't say why, unless that the walk is less private than those more distant. Lockhart, Allan, and I, talk of an excursion to Kelso to-morrow. I have no friends there now. Yet once how many! August 29. Went on our little expedition, breakfasting at Mertoun.
If Romeo before he flung up his ladder of ropes had paused, like Mertoun, to salute his mistress with a tenor morceau from the opera, it is to be feared that runaways' and other eyes would not have winked, and that old Capulet would have come upon the scene in his night-gown, prepared to hasten the catastrophe with a long sword.
When I returned from Mertoun, half-frozen, I took up the Magnum, and began to notify the romance called Woodstock, in which I got some assistance from Harden's ancient tracts. I ought rather to get on with Robert of Paris; but I have had all my life a longing to do something else when I am called to particular labour, a vile contradictory humour which I cannot get rid of.
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