He's never off their tongue; and if he's aquil to what they say of him, upon my credit the sun needn't take the trouble of shinin' on him." "Have they any expectation of a visit from him, do you know' ?" "Not that I hear, sir; but I know that nothing would rise the cockles of their hearts aquil to seein' him among them.

Poor fellow! Mr.Hamilton's will was a bad business for him, as it was thought he'd have danced into the property.

But then, they say, his other uncle will provide for him, especially as he took him from the family, by all accounts, on that condition." This information--if information it could be called--was nothing more nor less than wormwood and gall to the gentleman on whose ears and into whose heart it fell.

The consciousness of his present position--discarded by a kind uncle for dishonesty, and deprived, as he thought, by the caprice or mental imbecility, of another uncle, of a property amounting to upwards of twelve hundred per annum--sank upon his heart with a feeling which filled it with a deep and almost blasphemous resentment at every person concerned, which he could scarcely repress from the observation of his guide.
"What is your name ?" said he abruptly to him; and as he asked the question he fixed a glance upon him that startled his companion.
The latter looked at him, and felt surprised at the fearful expression of his eye; in the meantime, we must say, that he had not an ounce of coward's flesh on his bones.
"What is my name, sir ?" he replied.

"Faith, afther that look, if you don't know my name, I do yours; there was your mother's eye fastened on me to the life.