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It is called Almacks, and the author has so well succeeded in describing the cold selfish fopperies of the time, that the copy is almost as dull as the original. I think I will take up my bundle of Sheriff-Court processes instead of Almacks, as the more entertaining avocation of the two. March 13. Before breakfast, prepared and forwarded the processes to Selkirk.
Ere the servant could usher them to his apartment, the party was augmented by a man of law, Nichil Novit, writing himself procurator before the sheriff-court, for in those days there were no solicitors. This latter personage was first summoned to the apartment of the Laird, where, after some short space, the soul-curer and the body-curer were invited to join him.
If they get out of Scotland it will not be all I can do that will enable me to write myself a free man during the space I have to remain in this world. I smoked a couple of cigars for the first time since I came from the country; and as Anne and Charles went to the play, I muddled away the evening over my Sheriff-Court processes, and despatched a hugeous parcel to Will Scott at Selkirk.
When she heard the voice of her champion, the old woman let go a cat-like screech of triumph, and her gliding Gaelic, smoothness itself in articulation, flowed yet firier in word, and fiercer in tone. But the who were thus ejecting her hangers on of the sheriff-court in the county town, employed to give a colour of law to the doubtful proceeding did not know the chief.
But too cheap access to litigation has its evils on the other hand, for the proneness of the lower class to gratify spite and revenge in this way would be a dreadful evil were they able to endure the expense. Very few cases come before the Sheriff-court of Selkirkshire that ought to come anywhere.
Slept sound, for Nature repays herself for the vexation the mind sometimes gives her. This morning put interlocutors on several Sheriff-Court processes from Selkirkshire.
'Or of the action of suspension of the charge on the bill. 'I was just coming to that. 'Or the advocation of the Sheriff-Court process. 'I was just coming to it. 'As Tweed comes to Melrose, I think, said the litigant; and then filling his goblet about a quarter full of brandy, as if in absence of mind, 'Oh, Mr.
In the evening I read, and sent off my Sheriff-Court processes. I have a sort of grudging to give reasons why Malachi does not reply to the answers which have been sent forth. I don't know I am strongly tempted but I won't.
Ere the servant could usher them to his apartment, the party was augmented by a man of law, Nichil Novit, writing himself procurator before the sheriff-court, for in those days there were no solicitors. This latter personage was first summoned to the apartment of the Laird, where, after some short space, the soul-curer and the body-curer were invited to join him.
When she heard the voice of her champion, the old woman let go a cat-like screech of triumph, and her gliding Gaelic, smoothness itself in articulation, flowed yet firier in word, and fiercer in tone. But the who were thus ejecting her hangers on of the sheriff-court in the county town, employed to give a colour of law to the doubtful proceeding did not know the chief.
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