There's judgment in that though, Doctor, for she can cut thick or thin as she likes .-- Dear me! she has not taken mair than a crumb, than ane would pit between the wires of a canary-bird's cage, after all .-- I wish she would lift up that lang veil, or put off that riding-skirt, Doctor.

She should really be showed the regulations, Doctor Kickelshin." "She cares about no rules we can make, Mrs.Blower," said the Doctor; "and her brother's will and pleasure, and Lady Penelope's whim of indulging her, carry her through in every thing.

They should take advice on her case." "Ay, truly, it's time to take advice, when young creatures like her caper in amang dressed leddies, just as if they were come from scampering on Leith sands .-- Such a wark as my leddy makes wi' her, Doctor! Ye would think they were baith fools of a feather." "They might have flown on one wing, for what I know," said Dr.
Quackleben; "but there was early and sound advice taken in Lady Penelope's case.

My friend, the late Earl of Featherhead, was a man of judgment--did little in his family but by rule of medicine--so that, what with the waters, and what with my own care, Lady Penelope is only freakish--fanciful--that's all--and her quality bears it out--the peccant principle might have broken out under other treatment." "Ay--she has been weel-friended," said the widow; "but this bairn Mowbray, puir thing! how came she to be sae left to hersell ?" "Her mother was dead--her father thought of nothing but his sports," said the Doctor.

"Her brother was educated in England, and cared for nobody but himself, if he had been here.