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When this was observed by his conductors, they called to their aid two or three others of the party, and, swathing our hero's body in one of their plaids, divided his weight by that means among them, and transported him at the same rapid rate as before, without any exertion of his own.
Despite its gloomy hue, it has almost become a sacred color among Christian nations, being worn as the dress of the priest in his ministerial office, and doubly hallowed from its association with the dead. Black, as an ornamental color, should be below all others, for artistic effect. An artistic dressmaker places the dark or black plaids or stripes beneath the others.
We went into the house, which was cheerfully lighted up, and into a hall where there were all sorts of hats, caps, great-coats, plaids, gloves, whips, and walking-sticks. 'Where is Miss Dora? said Mr. Spenlow to the servant. 'Dora! I thought. 'What a beautiful name! Copperfield, my daughter Dora, and my daughter Dora's confidential friend! It was, no doubt, Mr.
"Wait till you see him!" smiled Fenger, "sitting there like a sultan while the pinks and blues, and whites and plaids parade before him." He turned to his desk again. "That's all, Miss Brandeis. Thank you." Then, at a sudden thought. "Do you know that all your suggestions have been human suggestions? I mean they all have had to do with people.
"Canst tell us, jolly smith" for they recognised each other by the lights which were brought into the streets "what manner of fellows they were who raised up this fray within burgh?" "The two that I first saw," answered the armourer, "seemed to me, as well as I could observe them, to have Highland plaids about them." "Like enough like enough," answered another citizen, shaking his head.
I had seen a few women with plaids at Aberdeen; but at Inverness the Highland manners are common. There is I think a kirk, in which only the Erse language is used. There is likewise an English chapel, but meanly built, where on Sunday we saw a very decent congregation. We were now to bid farewel to the luxury of travelling, and to enter a country upon which perhaps no wheel has ever rolled.
What had she done that life should shut down before her in such cruel bareness? Was she not young, very young to be unhappy? She began to fight a little with herself and Providence in savage mood; favored the crimped hair and Scotch plaids again, tried a nutting-party and a sewing-circle, as well as a little flirtation with Jim Snow. This lasted for another week.
'There will be nothing done to-night, said Fergus to his friend Waverley. 'Ere we wrap ourselves in our plaids, let us go see what the Baron is doing in the rear of the line.
Fortunately there was a village not far from the spot where we landed, and we took possession of a hut, lighted a good fire, and wrapped ourselves in Scotch plaids and blankets wrung out, while our clothes were being dried, as there was not a dry rag in our possession. We could procure nothing to eat, except a few dried fish that, not having been salted, were rather high flavoured.
Even so the distant funeral: the few mourners on horseback, with their plaids wrapped around them the father heading the procession as they enter the river, and pointing out the ford by which his darling is to be carried on the last long road not one of the subordinate figures in discord with the general tone of the incident seeming just accessories, and no more this is affecting. April 9.
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