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Spencer, Rixa, and General Turner himself no less, for the ancient rancour at the moment was at rest. "Here he comes," said old Mars sourly, as Gilian turned round the Arches into the town. "He's like Gillesbeg Aotram, always seeking for something he'll never find." "Your failure!" said Turner playfully, but with poor inspiration, as in a moment he realised. The Paymaster bridled.
That attracted all his attention. He gave a glance at the people at the door the inn-keeper, MacGibbon, with an unusual Kilmarnock bonnet on that seemed to have been donned in a hurry; Rixa, in a great perturbation, having just come out of a shandry-dan with which he had been driving up Glen Shira; Major Paul, and Wilson the writer.
Some of the mourners hastening to their liquor turned at the Cross and looked up the road to see if they were following, and they were struck vaguely by the significance of the thing. "Dear me," said the Fiscal, "is not Old Mars getting very bent and ancient?" "He is, that!" said Rixa, who was Sheriff Maclachlan to his face.
The youth looked somewhat inclined to be angry at this mode of hinting that he was still rather juvenile but the major went on. "And you were engaged, six months ago, to the beauty you used to tell me so much about, Miss Hope of Oakside." "Yes yes well?" replied the youth. "And what for have ye broke off in such a sudden manner? unde rixa? as a body may say." "I broke off, Major M'Toddy?
ISTO: the use of the neuter pronoun in the oblique case as substantive is noticeable. SERIPHIO: Seriphus is a small island belonging to the Cyclad group and lying almost due N. of Melos, and due E. of the Scyllaean promontory. Aristoph. Acharn. 542; Cic. IURGIO: iurgium is a quarrel which does not go beyond words; rixa a quarrel where the disputants come to blows. SI EGO: but further on, tu si.
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