Master Theodore was the son of Mr. Jacob Dip, formerly a tallow-chandler near the Seven Dials in London, who, having made a considerable fortune, was prevailed upon by his wife to retire from business, and be a gemman .[...]
Mrs. Dip, with a dignified composure, remarked to her companions, that she always, instead of being angry, pitied them low, illiterate creatures . "I always, my dear Mrs. Secondhand, computes their behavour to their ignorance."
Edinburgh, she had often heard, was a place in which there was the most genteelest society , and she expected that she could equal Scotch ladies of fashion in elegance, as she could equal many of them in expence.

"Oh, yes," said Mrs. Dip, "I think I knows what breeding is, and I'll give an incense of his'n . There was a parson there, in the same house with his wife, and what do you think? Although I heard for certain that he had not more than two hundred a year, clear in the world--although the 'Squire, God be praised, could produce a guinea for every half-crown he had, yet Mr. Manage preferred the company of the parson and his wife to 'Squire Dip and me. There was breeding for you; there was minding people of extinction . I never in my born days received such rudeness, except once. However, I always, as I says , computeth as to people's ignorance. There is no getting at all people to have the breeding they oft to have."

The elderly lady, interrupting his reverie, said she supposed leaving Edinburgh put him down in the mouth; adding, it was natural for a young person to look glum on parting with his friends, but that when he knowed London he would set no store by Edinburgh and them boorish places .
" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."

[...] the servant espying the Captain, ran up to him, took him very cordially by the hand, calling "Ned, how dost ? I hope hast secured the pleace ." Ned looked confused and made no answer. This his friend observing, and at the same time, espying the cockade, " what has't lost the pleace and art listed ?" Ned slunk away. "So then," said our hero to the fellow, "this person is not a Captain?" "A Captain," replied the other, laughing, "no, no, he was my fellow sarvant , and the 'Squire got him an exciseman's pleace at Northallerton; but I suppose he has been up to some of his old tricks, and got into a scrape, he looks so glum. He often used to get measter's clothes and go a courting , and, as he is a hell of a coward, often got licked. Measter missing several things of value, found him out to hae ta'en 'um , and so, Sir, he turned Ned off; but as he knows a thing or two of measter , the 'Squire gave him a good character and got him the place as I mentioned."

"I," said one, "have the good fortune to be employed by the very highest connections. Mr. Deputy Dripping has often took me with him in his own shay , and recommends to me all the young men as he can , and them are not a little . Indeed, every one allows as how m y manners of larning the boys, both writing and accompts, is equal to any that has ever been invented; but what I most values myself upon, and thinks myself most completest in, is grammar. The Deputy, his friend the Alderman, and Sir John, often comes and eats their mutton with me . Although the Alderman and I be such good friends , we dont have the same opinion. He is all for the funds, I were always for mortgages ."

"Oh, my beloved bretheren," he said, in a true Caledonian accent , "what a blessed doctrine it is that we are not to be clothed, yea, I say unto you, clothed in filthy nasty rags of our ain righteousness, but the splendid robs of Christ. It dis na signify how great sinners you ha been, or are, provided you do but believe . Do na be loosing your time in laabouring aifter morality and virtue, and sic haithenish things, seek for grace, seek for it, and not only speunefus but ladlefus , not only ladlefus but kettlefus . The grace of God is irresistible when ainsce you have had the effectual calling, you ay persaivere in the parts of grace. I noo proceed to expound to you in our chief doctrines of the persaivairance of the Sants .
" Dinna understand that the Sants are to persaivere in any particular kinds of works, only in faith. As to works, the Sants ken better than to value themselves on them; Satan often buffets the ailect , tempting them to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; as to the lust of the flesh, I wonna say that the Sants dinna indulge in them as much as other folks , but then what dis it signify what they do with their impure bodies, so that they keep the sowls pure from unbelif; but as the backslidings of the Sants are a stumbling block to the wicked, I coonsel all that ken themselves to be of the ailect , to keep among their ain number. Why should not the lambs of God play together ?"

The young ladies who were entrusted to the care and tuition of Miss Bouncer, were generally the daughters of mechanics, and the inferior classes of tradesmen, who at the instigation of their wives , were eagerly desirous that their daughters should be properly initiated in the principles of gentility and peliteness .

To keep you therefore no longer in suspense, Lucy began by saying, (in a hesitating voice and a countenance strongly impressed with terror,) "Law, mame !, you look frightened;--sure you hav'n't seen any thing! O dear me, mame , this house is sartainly haunted. I have heard sitch noises as none but spirits could make; and as sure as I stands here alive, the t'other night, as I was a coming through the gallery where all the pictures be, I heard a noise, and as I turned my head, ( tho' I generally shuts my eyes if I comes that way,) law! I thought I should a died; for the great picture of the ould lady as fronts the door, and I always thinks looks at me, but now its eyes moved, and I saw them as plain, mame , as I now see your's move. Well -- I runs screaming back again, and just as I got to the great stairs I met Mary housemaid, and so she seeing me so frighted, we took fast hold of one another, and shut our eyes, and so we run downstairs; and when I told her what had made me so frightful, she was not at all surprised, for she said she had seen it more than once or twice; and when she told it in the kitchen, Mr. Harding, master's gentleman, said there was no occasion to be afeard , for sitch things did happen now a-days; and said as how he had read a book called The Castle of Trantum, where the pictures walked out of their frames, and sighed; and I think he said, sometimes spoke! Lord bless us! it makes me shake now but to think on't. However, I have never ventured through the gallery since; but I believe it is the same in every place in the house; for the dairy-maid, who is up sometimes before 'tis light, says she has seen lights and and faces a looking through the windows in the lower buildings, and heard sitch noises, as she's sure the ghosts must be playing strange gambols .

Dear John,
[Writing] You nose as I promished to rite , and I be the more willen so to do becuase you nose of my parshality to Mrs. Jane, an I shud a rit soonder , but we a been in so mutsh bussle an confushion that I had no hart to set down to rite . My lord is gon now, marcy on him--I wish weed niver comed hear , but I musent tell tails . Sitch wachings and ridings by day an by nite , an for wat , for nothin but wat wull be a disgrase an the sweetest lady--but she as gin us the go by , an now we be all left at Blanzey upon bored wages, an not a thing we can get for our munny , for theres nothen to be had. Ireland is tore to peces , sad doins, indeed you may meet we rebles evry step you stur , an evry body goes harmed , an fokes hear mins no moor bein murdurd than if they was goen to a feest . Lord help us say I, but this is nothen to the purpus of wat as I ment to rite about. Tell Mrs. Jane as how in all my trubbles , an all my gurneys , an all my walkins , I niver forgot she , nor was niver arter thinkin of any thing ellse , tho my lord kep us up nite arter nite , an now we ha bin skuwring ovver the contry for madam, I musent menchun her name for fear of axidents . I think she must be dead or killed by the rebles , for wear can she be gon to, she ha no frends hear , and dont no nothen of her way, how shoud she poor sowl , an she was carred off in sitch a frite an a urry from her oun hous as she niver rekoverd , and she woudent speke to my lord if she cood help it, and was resentful to the last, but when my lord whent away, he sayed as how hed niver com bak till hed foond her, for she was all he walled in lif , so how it will hend God only nose , but bein as how she was a marred whoman , hit may prov a bad gob , and my pore lord git into trubble , but whinever you tels hit hit must be a seekret . I shal be glad to here from you. Plees to remembar me to all freends , and in partikilar to Mrs. Jane. Dereckt to me at write honnabel Lord Wycount Fitzarnolds Blanzey Lodge near Limerick Ireland, an if you pays the postadge it wull com free, so no more to command your
Loving freend
Stephen Macardoe
P.S. If you shoud here of Madam Sent Edward you may let me no , and you shall sheer sum of my reward, but her nam musent be menshend .