A moment afterwards the visitor withdrew, and Mr.Scott, lifting up the window-sash, took the cup, which he had left empty on the table, and tossed it out upon the pavement.

The lady exclaimed for her china, but was put to silence by her husband's saying, 'I can forgive your little curiosity, madam, but you must pay the penalty.

I may admit into my house, on a piece of business, persons wholly unworthy to be treated as guests by my wife.

Neither lip of me nor of mine comes after Mr.Murray of Broughton's.' "This was the unhappy man who, after attending Prince Charles Stuart as his secretary throughout the greater part of his expedition, condescended to redeem his own life and fortune by bearing evidence against the noblest of his late master's adherents, when-- "Pitied by gentle hearts, Kilmarnock died, The brave, Balmerino were on thy side."[3] "Broughton's saucer"-- i.

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