We stop here," said Nurse Bundle.
I caught his keen blue eye at the window whilst the coach was delayed by the getting out of our luggage.

I do not think he missed one feature of our welcome on the threshold of the saddler's shop.
I feel sure that Scotchmen do greatly profit by the habit they have of "absorbing into their constitutions," so to speak, all the facts of every kind that come within their ken.

They "go in for general information," like the Tom Toddy in Mr.Kingsley's 'Water Babies;' but their hard heads have, fortunately, no likeness to turnips.
This, however, is a digression.
Mr.Benjamin Buckle, Mrs.Benjamin Buckle, Jemima Buckle, their daughter, Mr.Buckle's apprentice, and the "general girl," or maid-of-all-work, were all in the shop to receive us.

I believe the cat was the only living creature in the house who was not there.

But cats seldom exert themselves unnecessarily on behalf of other people, and she awaited our arrival upstairs.