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Burns, in The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, says: 'But could I like Montgomeries fight, Or gab like Boswell. Boswell and Burns were born within a few miles of each other, Boswell being the elder by eighteen years. 'For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man, with the worst-natured muse. Rochester's Imitations of Horace, Sat. i. 10. Johnson's Works, ix. i. Taylor: 'Mr.
"That I will," he promised; "and, by Jove! the man will be a fortunate fellow." Lady Ver and I drove after luncheon me paid some calls, and went in to tea with the Montgomeries, who had just arrived at Brown's Hotel for a week's shopping.
In the feuds of Humes and Heatleys, Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Mures, Ogilvies, and Turnbulls, we find them inconspicuously involved, and apparently getting rather better than they gave.
I was just going to speak to your man through the telephone, to tell him not to bother you, that it didn't matter, and that to-morrow would do as well. It's so very late." He began to take off his overcoat, helped by Murgatroyd. "Not a bit too late!" he said. "I shall enjoy a little talk with you by the fire. Thanks, Murgatroyd! I was dining out with the Montgomeries in Eaton Square."
We find them burgesses of Edinburgh; indwellers in Biggar, Perth, and Dalkeith. Thomas was the forester of Newbattle Park, Gavin was a baker, John a maltman, Francis a chirurgeon, and 'Schir William' a priest. In the feuds of Humes and Heatleys, Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Mures, Ogilvies, and Turnbulls, we find them inconspicuously involved, and apparently getting rather better than they gave.
In the procession that moved up the cedar avenue of the old Suez burying-ground, he stepped beside General Halliday, near its end. Among the headstones of the Montgomeries the long line stopped and sang, "For oh! we stand on Jordan's strand, Our friends are passing over."
I thanked her again, but remained firm in my intention of accustoming myself to company. Stay in my room, indeed, with Lord Robert at dinner never! However, when I did come down he was surrounded by Montgomeries, and pranced into the dining-room with Lady Verningham. I had such a bore! A young Mackintosh, cousin of Mary's husband, and on the other side the parson.
The Montgomeries were usually a long-lived race, and their heirs rarely came to their titles till middle-aged fathers of families. "But we maun hae grand doings this time, ye ken," said an old farmer to the minister, "for I doubt there'll ne'er be anither Earl o' Cairnforth." Which fact every one seemed sorrowfully to recognize.
Here come the autocrats of the neighborhood, the nouveaux enrichis! your friends the Montgomeries and Hills, than whom I would sooner shake hands with the Asiatic plague! I hear Madame Montgomery asking if I am not at home, as well as the ladies! Tell her I am in Spitzbergen or Mantchooria, where I certainly intend to be ere long."
Several people were lunching at Carlton House Terrace: cabinet ministers, and a clever novelist, and the great portrait painter, besides two or three charming women one as pretty and smart as Lady Ver, but the others more ordinary looking, only so well mannered. No real frumps like the Montgomeries. We had a delightful lunch, and I tried to talk nicely and do my best to please my dear hostess.
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