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"Ay, indeed do I," said his comrade, "and it's best for you too; whatever business you have in London, I can do it for you as well, or something better than yourself." "But I choose to transact my own business myself, Captain Hillary, said Richard. "Then you ought to have remained your own master, Mr. Cadet Middlemas.
This was one of the occasions on which Dick Middlemas could be oratorical. "O, my more than father," he said, "how much greater a debt do I owe to you than to the unnatural parents, who brought me into this world by their sin, and deserted me through their cruelty!"
McFittoch, a dancing master, who, itinerant during the summer, became stationary in the winter season, and afforded the youth of Middlemas the benefit of his instructions at the rate of twenty lessons for five shillings sterling. On these occasions, each of Dr. Gray's pupils had his appropriate praise. Hartley danced with most spirit Middlemas with a better grace. Mr.
He presented me to the priest as his lawful offspring; and the law of Scotland, benevolent to the helpless child, will not allow him now to disown what he so formally admitted. I know my rights, and am determined to claim them." "You do not then intend to go on board the Middlesex? Think a little You will lose your voyage and your commission." "I will save my birth-right," answered Middlemas.
"But Tom Hillary," this was an apprentice of Clerk Lawford, who had of late been a great friend and adviser of young Middlemas "Tom Hillary says that I am a free-born Englishman, notwithstanding, in right of my parents." "Pooh, child! what do we know of your parents? But what has your being an Englishman to do with the present question?"
While the Doctor formed this good-natured resolution, young Middlemas rushed to Nurse Jamieson's apartment, where poor Menie, to whom his presence always gave holyday feelings, hastened to exhibit, for his admiration, a new doll, of which she had made the acquisition.
"Take care how you treat this so lightly, sir," said Middlemas; "I have been robbed of a thousand pounds."
Middlemas was well received in company, and in the way of becoming an indispensable guest at every entertainment in the place, when the vessel, on board of which Hartley acted as surgeon's mate, arrived at the same settlement.
Gray, we all know you to be a person well affected to our Royal Sovereign King George and the Government; but you must not push this too far, lest you bring yourself into trouble, which every body in Middlemas would be sorry for. The forty-five has not been so far gone by, but we can remember enough of warrants of high treason ay, and ladies of quality committed upon such charges.
Three or four years thus passed on, and, from being mere boys, the two medical aspirants shot up into young men, who, being both very good-looking, well dressed, well bred, and having money in their pockets, became personages of some importance in the little town of Middlemas, where there was scarce any thing that could be termed an aristocracy, and in which beaux were scarce and belles were plenty.
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