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Oldbuck was to her father's amusement and comfort, and seldom failed to interpose with effect, when the office of a mediator between them was rendered necessary by the satirical shrewdness of the one, or the assumed superiority of the other. Under Isabella's mild influence, the wrongs of Queen Mary were forgotten by her father, and Mr.
"It shall be done," replied Lord Glenallan, catching eagerly at the hope held out to him, the first he had nourished for many years; "I will write to a faithful steward of my father, who acted in the same capacity under my brother Neville But, Mr. Oldbuck, I am not my brother's heir."
Lovel," said Isabella, slightly colouring, "when I resided this last spring with my aunt, Mrs. Wilmot." "In Yorkshire? and what character did he bear then, or how was he engaged?" said Oldbuck, "and why did not you recognise him when I introduced you?"
"You don't consider what you ask," said the Bailie; "the offence is assault and robbery." "Hush! not a word about it," said the Antiquary. "I gave you a hint before I will possess you more fully hereafter I promise you, there is a secret." "But, Mr. Oldbuck, if the state is concerned, I, who do the whole drudgery business here, really have a title to be consulted, and until I am"
Oldbuck alone curled up his nose, and observed, that Miss Wardour's skill was something like that of the alchemists, for she had contrived to extract a sound and valuable moral out of a very trumpery and ridiculous legend. "It is the fashion, as I am given to understand, to admire those extravagant fictions for me, I bear an English heart, Unused at ghosts and rattling bones to start."
Half of them have the Celtic patronymic Mac prefixed Mac, id est filius; what do you say to that, Mr. Oldbuck?
Oldbuck" "Were great and gallant chiefs, I dare say, Hector; and really I did not mean to give you such immense offence in treating a point of remote antiquity, a subject on which I always am myself cool, deliberate, and unimpassioned. But you are as hot and hasty, as if you were Hector and Achilles, and Agamemnon to boot."
In the meantime, Lovel, forced as it were by this secession of Oldbuck, into a sort of tete-a'-tete with Miss Wardour, took an opportunity of addressing her in a low and interrupted tone of voice. "I trust Miss Wardour will impute, to circumstances almost irresistible, this intrusion of a person who has reason to think himself so unacceptable a visitor." "Mr.
"You made acquaintance with this young gentleman in Edinburgh, I suppose?" Oldbuck told the circumstances of their becoming known to each other. "Why, then, my daughter is an older acquaintance, of Mr. Lovel than you are," said the Baronet. "Indeed! I was not aware of that," answered Oldbuck somewhat surprised. "I met Mr.
Captain M'Intyre's eyes sparkled, and he was profuse in grateful acknowledgments; while Oldbuck, on the other hand, seizing the Earl's sleeve, endeavoured to intercept a present which boded no good to his corn-chest and hay-loft.
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