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One of the mysteries of our company was a tall, slender, elderly Scotchman, who appeared on the rolls as William Bradford. What his past life had been, where he had lived, what his profession, whether married or single, no one ever knew.
I see a serious necessity for warning you before it is too late; and I can only do so to any good purpose by running a risk on which few men in my place would venture. Personally and professionally, I am going to trust you though I am a Scotchman and a lawyer. Sit here, and look over my shoulder while I make my notes. You will see what is passing in my mind if you see what I write."
"I fought a Scotchman in the Torwood," answered Henry Smith, "upon a doubt which was the better swordsman, which, you are aware, could not be known or decided without a trial. The poor fellow lost two fingers." "Pretty well for the most peaceful lad in Perth, who never touches a sword but in the way of his profession. Well, anything more to tell us?"
"Pardon me it was because I was." The Scotchman looked at him curiously. "Maruja is an heiress. I am a mining engineer." "But, my dear fellow, I thought that in your country " "In MY country, yes. But we are standing on a bit of old Spain. This land was given to Dona Maria Saltonstall's ancestors by Charles V. Look around you.
He employed a clever Scotchman, an artist in domestic furniture, to plan his house, and make drawings for the decoration and furniture of every room and for six months he gave himself up to the task of furnishing. Money was spent like water. Painters, decorators, cabinet-makers had a merry time of it. Royal Academicians were impressed into the service by large offers, and the final result of Mr.
Had he remained silent, he would have been long unnoticed; but when he spoke there was something in his manner which arrested attention. 'Who is this young man? said the Vicar in a low voice to his neighbour. 'A Scotchman called Maxwell, on a visit to Sir Henry, was the answer. 'I thought so, from his accent and his manners, said the Vicar.
Market business! I wish there were no business in the warrld." Lucetta almost laughed she would quite have laughed but that there was a little emotion going in her at the time. "How you change!" she said. "You should not change like this. "I have never wished such things before," said the Scotchman, with a simple, shamed, apologetic look for his weakness.
"In conjunction wi' the descending glass, it has an ominous appairance," the Scotchman answered, with much stress on the first syllable of the adjective. The phenomenon which had attracted their professional attention did not appear to either of the Girdlestones to be a very important one.
This pair took the stage, all others considerately withdrawing; and presently, after a period of heartrending comicalities, the Scotchman, speaking as though he had a mouthful of hot oatmeal, proceeded to narrate an account of a fictitious encounter with a bear. THE NEGRO Mistah, you means a jagged rock, don't you? THE SCOTCHMAN Nay, nay, laddie a jugged rock. THE NEGRO Whut's dat you say?
The chaps at the West Diddlesex all admired it hugely, except that snarling Scotchman M'Whirter, fourth clerk, out of envy because I did not think much of a great yellow stone, named a carum-gorum, or some such thing, which he had in a snuff-mull, as he called it, all except M'Whirter, I say, were delighted with it; and Abednego himself, who ought to know, as his father was in the line, told me the jewel was worth at least ten poundsh, and that his governor would give me as much for it.
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