Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
Our Antiquary stepped out in his night-gown, and instantly received and returned his greeting. "They are coming now, in good earnest, Monkbarns. I just cam frae Fairport to bring ye the news, and then I'll step away back again. The Search has just come into the bay, and they say she's been chased by a French fleet. "The Search?" said Oldbuck, reflecting a moment. "Oho!"
Latterly, indeed, he has given some symptoms of becoming stationary, being frequently found in the corner of a snug cottage between Monkbarns and Knockwinnock, to which Caxon retreated upon his daughter's marriage, in order to be in the neighbourhood of the three parochial wigs, which he continues to keep in repair, though only for amusement.
The poor woman's sense of her loss, if not diminished, was become at least mitigated by the inevitable necessity of attending to the means of supporting her family; and her salutation to Oldbuck was made in an odd mixture between the usual language of solicitation with which she plied her customers, and the tone of lamentation for her recent calamity. "How's a' wi' ye the day, Monkbarns?
This conversation brought them to Monkbarns, where the Antiquary had to undergo a chiding from his sister, who, though no philosopher, was waiting to deliver a lecture to him in the portico. "Guide us, Monkbarns! are things no dear eneugh already, but ye maun be raising the very fish on us, by giving that randy, Luckie Mucklebackit, just what she likes to ask?"
Weel, Monkbarns is closeted wi' the shirra whatever puir folk may be left thereout ye needna doubt that the gentlemen are aye unco civil amang themsells." "For heaven's sake, my old friend" "Canna ye bid me gang to the deevil at ance, Mr. Lovel? it wad be mair purpose fa'ard than to speak o' heaven in that impatient gate." "But I have private business with Lieutenant Taffril here."
Such, his servant said, had been his lordship's diet for very many years, unless upon the high festivals of the Church, or when company of the first rank were entertained at Glenallan House, when he relaxed a little in the austerity of his diet, and permitted himself a glass or two of wine. But at Monkbarns, no anchoret could have made a more simple and scanty meal.
"Come, come," he said, "Saunders, there is no work for you this day I'll send down Shavings the carpenter to mend the boat, and he may put the day's work into my account and you had better not come out to-morrow, but stay to comfort your family under this dispensation, and the gardener will bring you some vegetables and meal from Monkbarns."
All voices meanwhile were loud in inquiries, which no one was in a hurry to answer. "What is the matter, Captain M'Intyre?" said Sir Arthur. "Ask old Edie," said Hector; "I only know all's safe and well." "What is all this, Edie?" said Miss Wardour to the mendicant. "Your leddyship maun ask Monkbarns, for he has gotten the yepistolary correspondensh."
"Ou, sir, what can they be about but this grand news o' my lord," answered the old man, "that hasna been ower the door-stane, they threep to me, for this twenty years this grand news of his coming to visit your honour?" "Aha!" said Monkbarns; "and what do they say of that, Caxon?" "'Deed, sir, they hae various opinions.
Although America seemed becoming more and more indifferent to the Puritan except as a slightly rococo ornament, he was only the more amusing as a study for the Monkbarns of Boston Bay, and Dr. Palfrey took him seriously, as his clerical education required.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking