Their drunkenness was deep-seated and permanent, like fire in a peat; or rather--to be quite just to them--it was not so much to be called drunkenness at all, as the effect of youth and high spirits--a fine night, and the night young, a good road under foot, and the world before you! I had left them once somewhat unceremoniously; I could not attempt it a second time; and, burthened as I was with Mr.Rowley, I was really glad of assistance.

But I saw the lamps of Edinburgh draw near on their hill-top with a good deal of uneasiness, which increased, after we had entered the lighted streets, to positive alarm.

All the passers-by were addressed, some of them by name.

A worthy man was stopped by Forbes.
'Sir,' said he, 'in the name of the Senatus of the University of Cramond, I confer upon you the degree of LL.D.,' and with the words he bonneted him.

Conceive the predicament of St.Ives, committed to the society of these outrageous youths, in a town where the police and his cousin were both looking for him! So far, we had pursued our way unmolested, although raising a clamour fit to wake the dead; but at last, in Abercromby Place, I believe--at least it was a crescent of highly respectable houses fronting on a garden--Byfield and I, having fallen somewhat in the rear with Rowley, came to a simultaneous halt.