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140 the Dominie, John?—(to a servant who was busy about the table) where's the Dominie and little Harry?"

"Mr Sampson's been at home these twa hours and mair, but I dinna think Mr Harry came home wi' him."

"Not come home wi' him?" said the lady, "desire Mr Sampson to step this way directly."

"Mr Sampson," said she, upon his entrance, "is it not the most extraordinary thing in this world wide, that you, that have free up-putting—bed, board, and washing—and twelve pounds sterling a-year, just to look after that boy, should let him out of your sight for twa or three hours?"

Sampson made a bow of humble acknowledgment at each pause which the angry lady made in her enumeration of the advantages of his situation, in order to give more weight to her remonstrance, and then, in words which we will not do him the injustice to imitate, told how Mr Francis Kennedy "had assumed spontaneously