I'll school Hector by and by, and put it all to rights." But Lovel persisted in his design of returning to Fairport.
The Antiquary then assumed a graver tone.--"Take heed, young man, to your present feelings.

Your life has been given you for useful and valuable purposes, and should be reserved to illustrate the literature of your country, when you are not called upon to expose it in her defence, or in the rescue of the innocent.

Private war, a practice unknown to the civilised ancients, is, of all the absurdities introduced by the Gothic tribes, the most gross, impious, and cruel.

Let me hear no more of these absurd quarrels, and I will show you the treatise upon the duello, which I composed when the town-clerk and provost Mucklewhame chose to assume the privileges of gentlemen, and challenged each other.

I thought of printing my Essay, which is signed Pacificator; but there was no need, as the matter was taken up by the town-council of the borough." "But I assure you, my dear sir, there is nothing between Captain M'Intyre and me that can render such respectable interference necessary." "See it be so; for otherwise, I will stand second to both parties." So saying, the old gentleman got into the chaise, close to which Miss M'Intyre had detained her brother, upon the same principle that the owner of a quarrelsome dog keeps him by his side to prevent his fastening upon another.