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Oldbuck up her narrow staircase, warning him of every turn, and lamenting all the while that he was laid under the necessity of mounting up so high. At length she gently tapped at the door of her guest's parlour. "Come in," said Lovel; and Mrs. Hadoway ushered in the Laird of Monkbarns.
"Ay! indeed?" said Oldbuck, in the tone used when one wishes to hear the end of a story before making any comment. "Yes truly," continued Sir Arthur "I assure you I was upon my guard we did hear some very uncommon sounds, that is certain, proceeding from among the ruins." "Oh, you did?" said Oldbuck; "an accomplice hid among them, I suppose?"
But you, Miss Isabel, why, you look as if flying through the night air had been your natural and most congenial occupation; your colour is even better than when you honoured my hospitium yesterday. And Sir Arthur how fares my good old friend?" "Indifferently well, Mr. Oldbuck; but I am afraid, not quite able to receive your congratulations, or to pay to pay Mr.
But as he rushed up stairs with a packet in his hand, exclaiming, "Long life to an old soldier! here comes Edie with a whole budget of good news!" it became obvious that his present cause of clamour was of an agreeable nature. He delivered the letter to Oldbuck, shook Sir Arthur heartily by the hand, and wished Miss Wardour joy, with all the frankness of Highland congratulation.
Lovel probably expected that his travelling companion would have invited him to dinner on his arrival; but his consciousness of a want of ready preparation for unexpected guests, and perhaps some other reasons, prevented Oldbuck from paying him that attention.
"Truly, gentlemen," said Lovel, "before you muster your forces and overwhelm me with authorities, I should like to know the word in dispute." "Benval" said both the disputants at once. "Which signifies caput valli," said Sir Arthur. "The head of the wall," echoed Oldbuck. There was a deep pause. "It is rather a narrow foundation to build a hypothesis upon," observed the arbiter.
Oldbuck did not follow these collectors in such excess of expenditure; but, taking a pleasure in the personal labour of forming his library, saved his purse at the expense of his time and toil, He was no encourager of that ingenious race of peripatetic middle-men, who, trafficking between the obscure keeper of a stall and the eager amateur, make their profit at once of the ignorance of the former, and the dear-bought skill and taste of the latter.
You offered yourself to me in my need, and you were already acquainted with the beginning of my misfortunes. To you, therefore, I have recourse for advice, for sympathy, for support." "You shall seek none of them in vain, my lord," said Oldbuck, "so far as my slender ability extends; and I am honoured by the preference, whether it arises from choice, or is prompted by chance.
Not Sancho, when his master interrupted his account of the combatants of Pentapolin with the naked arm, to advance in person to the charge of the flock of sheep, stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew.
"I think Sir Arthur has got the black dog on his back again," said Miss Oldbuck. "Black dog! black devil! he's more absurd than womankind What say you, Lovel? Why, the lad's gone too." "He took his leave, uncle, while Miss Wardour was putting on her things; but I don't think you observed him." "The devil's in the people!
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