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'A roll, if you please, Pyetushkov said amiably. 'The rolls are all gone, piped the fat woman. 'Haven't you any rolls? 'No. 'How's that? really! I take rolls from you every day, and pay for them regularly. The woman stared at him in silence. 'Take twists, she said at last, yawning; 'or a scone. 'I don't like them, said Pyetushkov, and he felt positively hurt.
I should think they would scarcely weigh more than four, perhaps even five, to a pound; but I am aware that the casual traveller, who eats only at hotels, and never has the privilege of entering feudal castles, will be slow to believe this estimate, particularly just after breakfast. Salemina always describes a Scotch scone as an aspiring but unsuccessful soda-biscuit of the New England sort.
They should be words as sharp as the birch rod she ought to have had, when she first began her nonsense, and her airs and graces." "She is a bad girl; but we must remember that she was left much to herself no mother to guide her, no sister or brother either." "It would have been a pity if there had been more of them. One scone of that baking is enough.
It's my belief that he's trying to cut me out, and he'll find he's got a hard row to hoe before he succeeds in that project." And with these words the Baron sat glaring after the Italian, with something in his eye that resembled faintly the fierce glance of Scone Dacres. The Italian rode on. A few miles further were the two carriages.
He would be sensitive, I do not doubt, to the tonalities of the way in which a waitress in a Lyons tea-shop would serve a lumpy-shouldered City man with tea and toasted scone.
But Jock, arriving in the highest good humour at the bottom of the staircase, was tilted sideways by the curve, and promptly sat down on the landing-place. Instead of rising, he proclaimed aloud that this was funnier even than England's pronunciation of the word 'scone. Whereupon various hurrying passengers, including an old lady, tripped over his prone form.
His ancestors had always been in alliance with the Irish, and the antiquaries of that nation loved to trace their descent from the Scoto-Irish chiefs who first colonized Argyle, and were for ages crowned at Scone.
From Scone, the crown, royal stone, and robes had been carried off to England; and the Earl of Fife, who, since the days of Macduff, had had the right of placing the King upon his throne, was in the hands of the English: but the Bishop of Glasgow provided rich raiment; a little circlet of gold was borrowed of an English goldsmith; and Isabel, Countess of Buchan, the sister of the Earl of Fife, rode to Scone, bringing her husband's war-horses, and herself enthroned King Robert.
On the following day, irritated by some show of resistance, the people of Dundee and Perth burned the palace of Scone and the abbey, "whereat no small number of us was offended." An old woman said that "filthy beasts" dwelt "in that den," to her private knowledge, "at whose words many were pacified." The old woman is an excellent authority.
His brother, Alexander, made the first efforts to abolish the old Celtic tenure. In 1114, he gave a charter to the monastery of Scone, and not only did the charter contemplate the direct holding of land from the king, but the signatories or witnesses described themselves as Earls, not as Mormaers.
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