Nothing of the sort, Miss Lizzie.

Only I heard that she was bonnie, and I wanted to see her.

You know I like to look at a pretty girl.' 'That's ower weel kent, my lord.' 'Well, there's no harm in that, Miss Lizzie.' 'There's no harm in that, my lord, though yer lordship says 't.' The facts were that his lordship had been to the county-town, some forty miles off, and Black Geordie had been sent to Hillknow to meet him; for in any weather that would let him sit, he preferred horseback to every other mode of travelling, though he seldom would be followed by a groom.
He had posted to Hillknow, and had dined with a friend at the inn.

The coach stopping to change horses, he had caught a glimpse of a pretty face, as he thought, from its window, and had hoped to overtake the coach before it reached Rothieden.

But stopping to drink another bottle, he had failed; and it was on the merest chance of seeing that pretty face that he stopped at The Boar's Head.