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Enter, coming forward very briskly, and then pretending to draw back in confusion.

O dear!—I beg pardon, gentlemen.—I knew not you were here—I came in search of Master Lawry. My lady is frightened to death about him,—but she does not know that I am come after him to this hotel,—O! she is in such a quandary; she did not know where to send me after him: for you know, gentlemen, a child may break his bones or come to mischief anywhere.

Nobody will deny that, Mrs. Flounce.

O lud, Sir Cameron! are you in this hotel? But you have a fine house in the neighbourhood, as the waiter tells me,—not that I inquired—I enters into no matters as don't belong to me.

If you had inquired, Mrs. Flounce, I should have taken it as a compliment.

And if your lady had desired you to inquire, it would have been taken as a compliment of double value.