Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . l volublemanner, know your father well—not at all like him ; no doubt ofyour mother—but—pshaw !—never mind. Welcome to BachelorsHall: tis Bachelors Hall now, you know—Mrs. Justice has left me—no matter—she was a good sort of person for all that—a little hottempered—only three days after marriage, a leg of mutton made tofly at my head; never mind—plenty of wine, eggs, at Bachelors Hall—we can make ourselves merry. The lady and her daughter survivedthe unfortunate Laird of Justice Hall. The former, we believe, d
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . l volublemanner, know your father well—not at all like him ; no doubt ofyour mother—but—pshaw !—never mind. Welcome to BachelorsHall: tis Bachelors Hall now, you know—Mrs. Justice has left me—no matter—she was a good sort of person for all that—a little hottempered—only three days after marriage, a leg of mutton made tofly at my head; never mind—plenty of wine, eggs, at Bachelors Hall—we can make ourselves merry. The lady and her daughter survivedthe unfortunate Laird of Justice Hall. The former, we believe, diedin 1837; the latter was respectably married. She some 3ears ago(through her mother) fell heir to a considerable fortune. When Captain Justices father, as already stated, sold the estate ofCrichton to j\lr. Pringle, a clause had been inserted in the deed ofconveyance, by which the seller guaranteed (or, according to Scotchlaw phraseology, warranted) the purchaser and his successors againstall augmentations of stipend which the clergyman of the parish might. ^
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