Jenny ran up the gravel walk, exclaiming -- "Oh, mistress! Oh, master! If there bean't be a fine gentleman axing for yese ! But, see! -- sure he's after me , coming in at the garden gate with a little angel in his arms!"

"Oh, my dear Miss Sybella! you must be deceived -- be assured her ladyship would not listen to a declaration of love from him!" said Mrs. Belmont, pale with anger; yet afraid of further irritating Sybella. "He dared not offend her delicacy with such talk; and no disparagement to you, Miss Sybella, but you know your lugs are not quite right ; and --"
" My what! ma'am -- lugs , do you say? I suppose that is one of your Irish expressions. "
" Well , miss; in plain English I mean to say , that as your ears are bothered , my Bobby might have been talking of you; and you, knowing listeners never hear good of themselves, set it all down to the count of her ladyship."

At about eight o'clock the following morning, Louisa was awoke by a rough salutation from Judy, who stood at the foot of her bed, roaring out -- "Miss Lowsy ! Miss Lowsy! will you lie sleeping there all day? Your sweetheart has been walking by the lake this hour. A pretty thing if he throws himself in for grief at your not appearing! Indeed he all as one as said as much; and axed me if I bees your servant ; but I tould him flat as how I bees nobody's servant , excepting, do you see, I sarved them for mere love and affection. After that fashion I am your servant since I was no bigger than a twopenny pipkin , and for certain , I may say, we knowed each other wince we were born. But that's true -- Aba-boo ! Miss! did you hear of the pullalue was in the house yesterday ?" -- continued Judith, with a contemptuous smile.

"I am happy, any how, that goes with her ," said Judith, wiping her eyes. " Troth , I pity the ould madam more than any of yese ; she is for all the world like that poor careful hin that cannot follow her young ducks into the pond: see! there she sits, full of terror, lest they can no more swim than herself; she has not the sinse like you, honey , to consider their natures, and that they are born to support themselves in water: no more is there any fear of my young mistress when she gets among the fine quality. The folks at the Park may say what they will in disparagment -- but she has a great blood as any one in the kingdom. She came here a little piccaniny , and was she not the head of us all?"

One said, -- " Upon my credit , I thinks it mighty quare sport, collecting them same lumps of stones!" Another wondered "one of his blood, and a ganius of his kind, would be after such low tricks: -- he had not, to be sure , far to stoop; but for such a mighty slight little man , it was a venturesome attempt!" The next inquired who the little lady lady was? and bet a wager, that she had shiners to fill the trunk on her back.

It came on now to blow great guns, and the poor Jew, who ate, drank, and slept, upon his boxes, like Boniface upon his ale, began to get dreadfully sick, and still more dreadfully alarmed. "Do you tink dat di sip be shee-vorty ?" cried he in an agony to me. "I hope so," replied I. "Mind, if me be wreck," said he to the captain, "you shave my pox ; 'tis my all; dere be much trinket, and faluable paper derein . Oh! I do tink I will be drown , and nopoty shall come to help me. Oh! my poor property! Ven shall vi shee land?" Here he grew sicker and sicker, whilst the sea ran mountains high.

On his entering the hotel, Jacky! the chambermaid exclaimed, "Sir, you've gotten a blue ee ." * "I have got two," replied he; "but I met with a blackguard of your country, and he has run against me, and just left his mark." " It's awful," cried Jacky. " Aye ," replied our young friend, "and I have got my pantaloons torn besides." " Eh! mercy! weel, but," added Jacky, "it might ha been war (worse) , for I can mend them for you." So saying, our youth went to bed, and I saw nothing of him until he appeared at dinner. He told us, laughing, that Jacky had mended his breeks , as she called them .
* The Scotch call a black eye a blue eye .

But unceremonious Archy, and conscientious Allan, oppose the thing. Archy brutally informs him that he does na ken him; that he may be as muckle o' a lord, as she is an honorable miss; that naething but the siller doon would satisfee the creditors; and that even then, as it is a criminal information which is lodged against her, he must bring her before the magistrates to answer to the charge: besides, adds brutal Archy, a' the quality of Embry is just affronted by her.
Allan, with a mild and sly look, and an inclination to mercy whenever interest did not most particularly stand in the way, urged the propriety of sifting the plot to the bottom; of finding out how far the mischief went; of consulting her other creditors, who had not, like Potifer, the Druggist, in George Street, taken out a fugitive writ; "and," added he, "it would be dishonorable in me to allow that gentleman, supposing him to be a lord, to marry he does na ken wha ; it wud be but discreet to ken wha the leddy really is; and perhaps, at the winding up, things may na be sae bad as they look the noo . "
There was a good deal of wisdom and circumspection in these observations, and they acted as a powerful refrigerent on Lord Stone's flame.
Allan's advice was taken, and the lady was borne away seemingly lifeless, uttering in broken accents that she was ruined; but that she feared not the minutest investigation of her family and conduct; and that, if she had been indiscreet she was not criminal. "I dare to say sae ," said mild Allan, taking a pinch of snuff; " an gin your story be true, the gentleman will may be marry ye after a ." Lord S. swore that he would; whilst Archy asked my lord if he wud na treat him to a dram; and advised him no to marry sic a ----.
Miss S. was allowed to lay down for a few hours, whilst the limbs of the law, or rather of the devil (for these are the lowest, blighted, and blasted branches of that learned profession), ate and drank heartily at Lord Stone's expense, and inflamed the reckoning as much as possible.
The lady was now torn from his arms, and boxed up in a chaise with mild, silver-tongued Allan and a concurrent, as most likely to use her well. The rest of the banditti were paid and dispersed; whilst my lord, against whom no writ was issued, suffered Archy to ride in his carriage, in order to keep the bear in good humour: and now he was completely tamed, and as obsequious as a slave. Upon receiving a bit of the flimsy in his pooch , he promised no to interfere with the puir divil of a lassie , and to hide himsel gaing through the toon , that my lord might no be affronted by being thought to be taen up; "though," continued he, "I hae had the best in the laund in my custody."
On the road he entertained the peer with a' the titled folk, knights, baronets, and honorable misters, whom he had had in his grip, as well as about street rows and wild students, and wilder limmers , and how he had to arrest the leddies twa or three times every week, and how stupid idiots of credulous men aye answered for them and took them out, and how my lord ought to beware of bad hooses ,--although, to be sure , he kent ane or twa discreet places where person and property were safe, and where you might leave gold untold. He kent lucky sic a ane , wha wad na hae a dishonorable thing done in her hoose for a' the warld . She was a bony bit creatury when she was a lassie , and he kent her then, and had to put her in prison for a quarrel and faight wi another lassie ; but she was turned quite douce and discreet, and respectable noo . There was na a mair decenter hoose-hadder in the toon , nor wha paid her cess and taxes mair regularly than her; and she might hae been married upon a minister at ae time, but she kent better sense ; it was onely her siller that the chil wanted. What's the use o' marrying, except it be to better ane's sel .

"There could na be too great a punishment for her" said Baillie Crockery. "She juist deserved to be haung-ed," (laying great stress on the ed ) observed Baillie Candles. "She shud be whip- ed through the toon naked" cried Baillie Blueruin, "for he wud like to hae a peep." "No, that would be im-more-al, " cried Baillie Snuffy the haberdasher. "The limmer , I hae nae patience wi' her, for thrusting hersel amongst honest men's wives and daughters," exclaimed Baillie Grocery. In short, it was "Tot homines tot sententiae."
At length, Lord Stone was examined in her behalf. "Is he really a lord?" said the senior baillie. "Aye, I believe sae ," replied a tailor baillie. "Let us treat him like a nobleman wi' a' distinction," exclaims the junior baillie. "He's vara rich, an pays like a prince," whispers Archy in the clerk's ear. "Let us offer his lordship a seat," suggests one. "Let us kiss his haund as a mark o' oor respeck ," says another. " Hoot man," says a third, "that wad only be askin an honor o' his lordship; it wud be far mair becomin o' the cooncil wi' a' humility to kiss his--his--his foot; or some ither less dignifeed place."

"It was a great mercy Tom," said he, "that you were so early upon the strand to day, otherwise the poor men might have perished."
"With God's help your honor," replied Tom, "let me lose what I may, I'll never see a christian lost, when I can do him sarvice ."
" Aye , and that's the reason you're as you are," said his wife, speaking from the chimney corner with an inch of pipe in her mouth. "If your heart was not so tinder , you'd be better in the world; see Paddy Rourke there beyant , bekase he's not so foolish, how snug and warm he is -- but you -- you'll never be worth this scutty pipe in my mouth -- that's except ye take my biddin ."
" Hould your tongue," replied Tom, "I often tould you his money and value would go a grey gate , ill got, ill gone, it's better to be poor and have a clear conscience, I think."
" And sure ," answered the wife, "what you get at the shore needn't trouble your conscience, have'nt you as good a right to it as another, but it's no use talking to ye ."
"No use at all," said Tom.
"I am surprised Molly," remarked Frederick, "that you urge your husband to do any act his conscience tells him is not right, and which, by what I can understand, is contrary to the laws of God and man. "
"But sure Sir," replied she, " it's no sin for a man to take care of his family, and that's all I want Tom to do, when a ship is wracked he has as good a right to get his share of what's goin' as another."