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Updated: May 21, 2025
Next morning, before Hezekiah was up, the chief brought to his room a new outfit of clothes a silk hat, frock-coat, shepherd's-plaid trousers and varnished boots with spats. "You won't mind accepting these things, Mr. Hayloft. Our force would like very much to enable you to make a suitable appearance in the court." Carefully dressed and shaved, Hezekiah descended.
'Cook, said Tom, turning over some leaves of the ledger. 'Well! 'Read out an easy place or two, said the fat lady. 'Pick out very light ones, if you please, young man, interposed a genteel female, in shepherd's-plaid boots, who appeared to be the client. "Mrs Marker," said Tom, reading, "Russell Place, Russell Square; offers eighteen guineas; tea and sugar found.
Her clothing may be described as a bundle of rags, with the exception of a shepherd's-plaid on her shoulders, the spotless purity of which contrasted strangely with the dirtiness of every thing else around. The old creature was moaning and moping over the fire, and drawing the plaid close round her as if she were cold, although the weather was extremely warm.
In her distraction she sniffed audibly. A tear ran down either side of her pink shiny nose and dropped on the folds of shepherd's-plaid silk veiling her plump bosom.
Hereupon there descended from the top of the vehicle a short, stout, elderly gentleman, in a Glengarry bonnet, green tartan shooting-coat, and shepherd's-plaid vest and pantaloons; two active youths, of the ages of seventeen and fifteen respectively, in precisely similar costume; a man-servant in pepper and salt, and a little thin timid boy in blue, a sort of confidential page without the buttons.
She wondered if this consideration troubled the old man. Trouble there was, of some sort: he called at the house three days running for a word with Richard. He wore a brand-new pair of shepherd's-plaid trousers, a choker that his work-stained hands had soiled in tying, a black coat, a massive gold watch-chain.
She was neatly dressed, and had a plain shepherd's-plaid shawl, that suited her noble bust. She looked a picture of health and happiness. "If you please, miss, he is come to take me to Cairnhope." "Oh! is it for that? And I declare you expected him, too." "Yes," said Jael, and blushed. "You never told me," said Grace, with a light touch of asperity.
Looking into the brightened face that met him at the door, John failed to discover that the bonnet above it was dingy and brown. And if the rustiness of the little shepherd's-plaid shawl that covered her shoulders marred in any degree the pleasure with which he drew her hand beneath his friendly arm, he gave no token that it did so.
He had not climbed far up the hill when he met a man descending. He soon recognised his worthy host, though a maud, as it is called, or a gray shepherd's-plaid, supplied his travelling jockey-coat, and a cap, faced with wild-cat's fur, more commodiously covered his bandaged head than a hat would have done.
He was wearing a soft felt hat with a very broad brim, set far back on his head; and with his peculiar American-looking beard and thin grey locks that came down over the high Gladstone collar which he always wore, and a black and white shepherd's-plaid scarf wound round his neck and twisted over in front with its ends tucked into his waistcoat, he looked sufficiently odd.
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