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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Punch!" said he, catching that generous sound as he entered the parlour, "the deil a drap punch ye'se get here the day, Monkbarns, and that ye may lay your account wi'." "What do you mean, you impudent rascal?" "Ay, ay, it's nae matter for that but do you mind the trick ye served me the last time ye were here!" "I trick you!" "Ay, just yoursell, Monkbarns.
"Should I not send to Monkbarns, sir?" said his daughter. "To what purpose? He cannot lend me such a sum, and would not if he could, for he knows I am otherwise drowned in debt; and he would only give me scraps of misanthropy and quaint ends of Latin." "But he is shrewd and sensible, and was bred to business, and, I am sure, always loved this family." "Yes, I believe he did.
Hector! thy namesake was born to be the prop of Troy, and thou to be the plague of Monkbarns!"
M'Intyre need not leave Monkbarns to see him, for my son writes that the Major is to come with him to Knockwinnock, and I need not say how happy I shall be to make the young gentlemen acquainted, unless, indeed, they are known to each other already."
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.
"From Fife, my liege," answered the young soldier, and continued, when he had politely saluted the rest of the company, and particularly Sir Arthur and his daughter "I learned from one of the servants, as I rode towards Monkbarns to pay my respects to you, that I should find the present company in this place, and I willingly embrace the opportunity to pay my respects to so many of my friends at once."
I must therefore remind you, that when we first talked over together that class of productions, in one of which the private and family affairs of your learned northern friend, Mr Oldbuck of Monkbarns, were so unjustifiably exposed to the public, some discussion occurred between us concerning the cause of the popularity these works have attained in this idle age, which, whatever other merit they possess, must be admitted to be hastily written, and in violation of every rule assigned to the epopeia.
The next tale, entitled "The Two Drovers," I learned from another old friend, the late George Constable, Esq. of Wallace-Craigie, near Dundee, whom I have already introduced to my reader as the original Antiquary of Monkbarns.
Hector! thy namesake was born to be the prop of Troy, and thou to be the plague of Monkbarns!"
"Lord haud a care o' us!" exclaimed the astounded maiden. "What's the matter now, Grizel?" "Wad ye but just speak a moment, Monkbarns?" "Speak! what should I speak about? I want to get to my bed and this poor young fellow let a bed be made ready for him instantly." "A bed? The Lord preserve us!" again ejaculated Grizel.
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