After dinner, the Duke asked his guest what were the precise terms in which he was in the habit of alluding to his powerful neighbours.

Cultoquhey repeated his liturgy without a moment's hesitation.

"I recommend you," said his Grace, looking very angry, "in future to omit my name from your morning devotions." All he got from Cultoquhey was, "Thank ye, my Lord Duke," taking off his glass with the utmost sangfroid.
FOOTNOTES: [49] Stoor is, Scottice, dust in motion, and has no English synonym; oor is hour.

Sir Walter Scott is said to have advised an artist, in painting a battle, not to deal with details, but to get up a good _stoor_: then put in an arm and a sword here and there, and leave all the rest to the imagination of the spectator.
[50] Reach me a leg of that turkey.
[51] Clearing ashes out of the bars of the grate.
[52] Mentally confused.

Muddy when applied to water.
[53] Preface to 4th edition of _Mystifications_, by Dr.John Brown.
[54] Worse.
[55] Where.
[56] Lord Cockburn's _Memorials_, p.