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Alexander Monypenny, W.S., were the three gentlemen who ultimately agreed to take charge, as trustees, of Sir Walter Scott's affairs; and certainly no gentlemen ever acquitted themselves of such an office in a manner more honourable to themselves, or more satisfactory to a client and his creditors. J.G.L. Mr. Gibson wrote a little volume of Reminiscences of Scott, which was published in 1871.
So Tommy's schoolmates reported at home, and the dominie had to acknowledge its truth to Aaron. "I wish you would give that sacket a thrashing for me," he said, half furiously, yet with a grin on his face, one day when he and the warper chanced to meet on the Monypenny road. "I'll no lay a hand on bairn o' Jean Myles," Aaron replied.
Tommy's arms were stronger than Elspeth's, but they could not hare done as much for him that day. Thus did the two children enter upon the genteel career, to the indignation of the other boys and girls of Monypenny, all of whom were commoners.
When school was over Tommy frequently stepped out of his boots and stockings, so that he no longer looked offensively genteel, and then Monypenny was willing to let him join in spyo, smuggle bools, kickbonnety, peeries, the preens, suckers pilly, or whatever game was in season, even to the baiting of the Painted Lady, but they would not have Elspeth, who should have been content to play dumps with the female Haggerty-Taggertys, but could enjoy no game of which Tommy was not the larger half.
On the whole, Tommy irritated his fellow-pupils a good deal, but they found it difficult to keep away from him. He also contrived to enrage the less genteel boys of Monypenny.
When he stole through the small field that separates Monypenny from the Den, his decision was but on reaching the Cuttle Well, its nearness to the uncanny Lair chilled his courage, and now he had only come to bid her good-by. She was very late, and it suddenly struck him that she had already set off. "After getting me to promise to go wi' her!" he said to himself at once.
Grizel always began at once, often in the middle, she saw what she was making for so clearly. "Do you know what it means when there are red spots in your cheeks, that used not to be there?" Tommy knew at once to whom she was referring, for he had heard the gossip of the youth of Monypenny, and he hesitated to answer. "And if, when you cough, you bring up a tiny speck of blood?"
'And, what won't interest you, his letter said, 'I have run across a curiously interesting subject, what you would call hysterical. But what, after all, is hysteria? &c., &c. 'L'affaire est dans le sac! said Merton to himself. 'Jephson and Miss Monypenny have met! Weeks passed, and one day, on arriving at the office, Merton found Miss Willoughby there awaiting his arrival.
M. entirely. His father, old Colonel Monypenny, was my early friend, kind and hospitable to me when I was a mere boy. He had much of old Withers about him, as expressed in Pope's epitaph "O youth in arms approved! O soft humanity in age beloved."
The Monypenny road was thick with them, braw loons in blue bonnets with red bobs to them, tartan waistcoats, scarves of every color, woollen shirts as gay, and the strutting wearers in two minds whether to take off the scarf to display the shirt, or hide the shirt and trust to the scarf.
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