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Some expectation of a legacy, perhaps, from that old Lady Bountiful of the neighbourhood, who would like to enrich such an amiable philanthropist.

But that old lady was dead, Kunliffe.

O what a loss to the topers at the Cat and Bagpipes! for they will now be obliged to support their own families and drink less.

Don't be so hard-hearted, Sir Cameron.

You must make some allowance for one who holds a justice-court every Friday, and has all the misdoings of the parish brought before him.

Where, thanks to his natural gift of suspectiveness, he detects as much knavery, and dispenses as prompt justice, as the sage governor of Barataria.

And there is a droll look on his face at this moment, as if some curious case had been lately before him.