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 "I pity you aw, nane of ye half kenns Willie; nay, for that matter, I did not half kenn him mysel." Hamilton smiled. "What is the matter, uncle?" said Maria.—"Willie made a speech! Willie made a speech!" and he strutted through the room: "if you want to ken what kind of speech it was, ask Mr. Pett and Mr. Dundas, the saaviours of their country; and ask Mr. Burke, that spoke up for the gentry and dignity of the country, against rapscallions: he has inveeted Willie and me to his country hoose. Nay, even Mr. Fox, though I suspect he is one of them as they call Foxites, or democrats, or jacobins, which they tell me is all ane, he praised Willie, and said something in laatin to him; but you may be all prood of Willie." Sir Edward Hambden now arriving, gave the company a full explanation of what they had, in a considerable degree understood,