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But I might have heard all about him from Dame Suddlechop, for she spoke of my meeting him at Enfield Chase, with some other good fellows, to do a robbery on one that goes northward with a store of treasure." "And you did not agree to this fine project?" said Moniplies. "I cursed her for a hag, and came away about my business," answered Jenkin. "Ay, and what said she to that, man?
But Ursula was luxurious and genial in her habits, and could no more have endured the stinted economy of Benjamin's board, than she could have reconciled herself to the bald chat of his conversation. It was on the evening of the day on which Lord Nigel Olifaunt dined with the wealthy goldsmith, that we must introduce Ursula Suddlechop upon the stage.
"I rushed into the streets," said the poor lad, "with a burning heart and a blood-shot eye and where did I first find myself, but with that beldam, Mother Suddlechop and what did she propose to me, but to take the road?" "Take the road, man? in what sense?" said Richie.
Suddlechop in the text; that is, half milliner half procuress, and secret agent in all manner of proceedings.
"You are mad to think of it," said Dame Suddlechop, considerably alarmed "hear me but a moment. I know not precisely from whom she got the money; but sure I am that she obtained it at her godfather's." "Why, Master George Heriot is not returned from France," said Jenkin.
A still higher authority, Dame Ursula, wife to Benjamin Suddlechop, the barber, was of exactly the same opinion.
The Scots laundress entered accordingly, and having heard nothing of the last kind wish of Dame Suddlechop, made her reverence with considerable respect, and said, her young mistress had returned home unwell, and wished to see her neighbour, Dame Ursley, directly.
Suddlechop, whom you lodged me with since I left poor old John Christie, that Lord Glenvarloch is to marry David Ramsay the clockmaker's daughter?" "There is much betwixt the cup and the lip, Nelly. I wear something about me may break the bans of that hopeful alliance, before the day is much older," answered Lord Dalgarno.
"Nothing, dame," said Margaret somewhat pettishly, and changing her posture so as rather to turn her back upon the kind inquirer. "Nothing, lady-bird!" answered Dame Suddlechop; "and do you use to send for your friends out of bed at this hour for nothing?" "It was not I who sent for you, dame," replied the malecontent maiden.
Lord Glenvarloch adds, to the insipidity which is the bane of Scott's good heroes, some rather disagreeable traits which none of them had hitherto shown. Dalgarno in the same way falls short of his best bad heroes. Dame Suddlechop suggests, for the first time unfavourably, a Shakespearean ancestress, Mistress Quickly, and the story halts and fails to carry the reader rapidly over the stony path.
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