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NOTES TO THE ANTIQUARY.
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The Funeral of the Countess
Lord Glenallen and Elspeth
The Antiquary Visits Edie in Prison
My Good Friends, 'favete Linguis'
The Antiquary Arming
About a week after the adventures commemorated in our last CHAPTER, Mr. Oldbuck, descending to his breakfast-parlour, found that his womankind were not upon duty, his toast not made, and the silver jug, which was wont to receive his libations of mum, not duly aired for its reception.
"This confounded hot-brained boy!" he said to himself; "now that he begins to get out of danger, I can tolerate this life no longer. All goes to sixes and sevens?an universal saturnalia seems to be proclaimed in my peaceful and orderly family. I ask for my sister?no answer. I call, I shout?I invoke my inmates by more names than the Romans gave to their deities?at length Jenny, whose shrill voice I have heard this half-hour lilting in the Tartarean regions of the kitchen, condescends to hear me and reply, but without coming up stairs, so the conversation must be continued at the top of my lungs. "?Here he again began to hollow aloud?"Jenny, where's Miss Oldbuck?"
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