Look at these two or three notes, and deliver them if you like the addresses.

I wrote them for you this morning.

Farewell, my clerk has been waiting this hour to begin a d-d information.' And away walked Mr.Pleydell with great activity, diving through closes and ascending covered stairs in order to attain the High Street by an access which, compared to the common route, was what the Straits of Magellan are to the more open but circuitous passage round Cape Horn.
On looking at the notes of introduction which Pleydell had thrust into his hand, Mannering was gratified with seeing that they were addressed to some of the first literary characters of Scotland.

'To David Hume, Esq.' To John Home, Esq.' 'To Dr.Ferguson.' 'To Dr.Black.' 'To Lord Kaimes.' 'To Mr.Button.' 'To John Clerk, Esq., of Eldin.' 'To Adam Smith, Esq.' 'To Dr.Robertson.' 'Upon my word, my legal friend has a good selection of acquaintances; these are names pretty widely blown indeed.

An East-Indian must rub up his facultiesa little, and put his mind in order, before he enters this sort of society.' Mannering gladly availed himself of these introductions; and we regret deeply it is not in our power to give the reader an account of the pleasure and information which he received in admission to a circle never closed against strangers of sense and information, and which has perhaps at no period been equalled, considering the depth and variety of talent which it embraced and concentrated.
Upon the Thursday appointed Mr.Pleydell made his appearance at the inn where Colonel Mannering lodged.