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Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

CHAPTER THE SIXTH
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No; it was downright Scotch.

Every tone and every syllable was Scotch.

For example, I recollect old Miss Erskine of Dun, a fine specimen of a real lady, and daughter of an ancient Scottish house, so speaking.

Many people now would not understand her.

She was always _the lady_, notwithstanding her dialect, and to none could the epithet vulgar be less appropriately applied.


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