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There was a bitter and personal quarrel and rivalry betwixt the author of this libel, a name which it richly deserves, and Lord President Stair; and the lampoon, which is written with much more malice than art, bears the following motto: Stair's neck, mind, wife, songs, grandson, and the rest, Are wry, false, witch, pests, parricide, possessed.
Stair's. Have you news, Captain?" I drew breath of relief. Happily the loss of the day had not made me the bearer of stale tidings. So I made answer with proper reticence, saying that I had news, but it was for Lord Cornwallis's ear first of all. None the less, if the commissary-general were pleased to come with me
He left the men and women in the drama which was unrolling itself about Glenanmays to take care of themselves. He might not have had any the least interest in them. He gave his whole thought to Whitefoot, Stair's lean, shaggy collie. By observation he obtained a good working knowledge of the whereabouts of Whitefoot's master not sufficient, certainly, to act upon if it had been a case of capture.
So with the self-assertion without which a Scot ceases to be a Scot, he had fastened upon those winter months with Julian Wemyss to fill in the lacunes of Dominie McAll's instruction. A good good deal of classics, daily readings in the French and German tongues, conversation after the Socratic method these were the pillars of Stair's temple of learning at the Bothy.
Martin's 'Styles' from a shelf, where that venerable work roosted with Stair's 'Institutions, Dirleton's 'Doubts, Balfour's 'Practiques, and a parcel of old account-books, opened the volume at the article Contract of Marriage, and prepared to make what he called a'sma' minute to prevent parties frae resiling.
In consequence of these resolutions, the parliament drew up an address to the king, in which they laid the whole blame of the massacre upon the excess in the master of Stair's letters concerning that transaction.
"Speak out, and quickly." 'Twas the lawyer who obeyed, and now he was the trapped rat to snap blindly in despair. "You will hang higher than Haman when the dragoons find you," he gritted out. "On your information?" "On mine and Mr. Stair's." "Ye lie!" shrieked the miser. "I tell't ye to keep hands off, ye bletherin' little deevil, ye!" "Never mind," said I; "what's done is done.
But the Authorities refused Stair's counsel, as rash again; and made no effectual pursuit at all; too glad that they had brushed their Battle-field triumphantly clear, and got out of that fatal pinfold in an honorable manner. "They stayed on the ground till 10 at night; settling, or trying to settle, many things. Quite in the Philip-Sydney fashion; which was much taken notice of.
These reasons given to a woman of Lady Stair's type were scarcely likely to be listened to with much patience, and Janet Dalrymple and Lord Rutherfurd soon saw that all their love-making must be done under the rose, and that they must wait as best they could for the obdurate parents to change their minds.
Stair's chamber was spacious the largest and best in the gaol, but the roof had not been plastered, and he could see the light through the slates, though some attempt had been made at scantling, and even in one corner a quantity of plasterers' laths had been piled. But there the matter had rested and was likely to rest. As usual, the Town Council objected to spending money.
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