"It runs riot below among the bar and the public, but it sifts up to us upon the bench, and rumour has some of her voices even in the divisions." Carstairs returned at this moment, and rapidly laid out a little supper; during which Lord Glenalmond spoke at large and a little vaguely on indifferent subjects, so that it might be rather said of him that he made a cheerful noise, than that he contributed to human conversation; and Archie sat upon the other side, not heeding him, brooding over his wrongs and errors.
But so soon as the servant was gone, he broke forth again at once.

"Who told my father?
Who dared to tell him?
Could it have been you ?" "No, it was not me," said the Judge; "although--to be quite frank with you, and after I had seen and warned you--it might have been me--I believe it was Glenkindie." "That shrimp!" cried Archie.
"As you say, that shrimp," returned my lord; "although really it is scarce a fitting mode of expression for one of the senators of the College of Justice.

We were hearing the parties in a long, crucial case, before the fifteen; Creech was moving at some length for an infeftment; when I saw Glenkindie lean forward to Hermiston with his hand over his mouth and make him a secret communication.

No one could have guessed its nature from your father: from Glenkindie, yes, his malice sparked out of him a little grossly.

But your father, no.