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"The pride of Auld Reekie just now is Mr. Gourlay Stelle, who was lately commanded to Balmoral Castle to paint the Queen's dogs." "The very person! I have seen his beautiful canvas 'Burns and the Field Mouse. Is he not a younger brother of Sir John Stelle, the sculptor of the statue and character figures in the Scott monument?"
Walls had been knocked away and arches had been constructed. The leads behind had been supported and walled in, and covered and carpeted. The ball had possession of the ground floor and first floor, and the house seemed to be endless. 'It's to cost sixty thousand pounds, said the Marchioness of Auld Reekie to her old friend the Countess of Mid-Lothian.
"Frae Auld Reekie," "A guid New Year to ye a'," "For the Auld Folk at Hame," are among the most favoured of these devices. Can you not see the carrier, after half-a-day's journey on pinching hill-roads, draw up before a cottage in Teviotdale, or perhaps in Manor Glen among the rowans, and the old people receiving the parcel with moist eyes and a prayer for Jock or Jean in the city?
Then she opened the other, which was shorter, and when she saw her cousin's signature, "Glencora Palliser," she read that letter first, read it twice before she went back to the disagreeable task of perusing Lady Midlothian's lecture. The reader shall have both the letters, but that from the Countess shall have precedence. Castle Reekie, N.B. Oct. 186 .
"The city of Edinboro' has no amateur astronomers, and there are two only, of note, in Scotland: Sir William Bisbane and Sir William Keith Murray. "From the observatory, the view of Edinboro' is lovely. 'Auld Reekie, as the Scotch call it, always looks her best through a mist, and a Scotch mist is not a rare event so we saw the city under its most becoming veil. "October, 1857.
'Oh, Willie was a witty wight, And had o' things an unco slight! Auld Reekie aye he keepit tight And trig and braw; But now they'll busk her like a fright Willie's awa'! I think perhaps the gatherings of the present time are neither quite as gay nor quite as brilliant as those of Burns's day, when 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut, An' Rob an' Allan cam to pree';
Were he once the father-in-law of the eldest son of a marquis, he thought he might almost be safe. Even though something might be all but proved against him, which might come to certain proof in less august circumstances, matters would hardly be pressed against a Member for Westminster whose daughter was married to the heir of the Marquis of Auld Reekie! So many persons would then be concerned!
One day I was standing on the ramparts of the Castle on the south-western side which overhangs the green brae, where it slopes down into what was in those days the green swamp or morass, called by the natives of Auld Reekie the Nor Loch; it was a dark gloomy day, and a thin veil of mist was beginning to settle down upon the brae and the morass.
We have it, however, on reasonable authority, that the murder of the Laird of Warriston did set the people of ``Auld Reekie'' finely agog. John Kincaid, of Warriston, was by way of being one of Edinburgh's notables. Even at that time his family was considered to be old.
From the top of the Calton-Hill, the inhabitants of "Auld Reekie" can descry, or fancy they descry the peaks of Ben Lomond and the waving outline of Rob Roy's country: we who live at the southern extremity of the island can only catch a glimpse of the billowy scene in the descriptions of the Author of Waverley.
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