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Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair. and the History of Matthew Wald
Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and the History of Matthew Wald Author:John Gibson Lockhart General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or mi... more »ssing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: About two hours might have passed in the interim, and a great part of that time he was observed sitting in the same posture by the window, which, by the way, commanded a fine view of the garden terraces, the bright river far down among the trees, and the waving bank of copsewood on the opposite side of the glen. CHAPTER X. There is always some little awkwardness perceptible in the demeanour of people, when, after partaking in, or even perhaps witnessing, a scene of great excitement, they meet each other for the first time, under circumstances of perfect security and repose. This sort of embarrassment was sufficiently observable even in the good dowager of Semplehaugh and her other guests ; but it was very strikingly so in Mr Blair and Mrs Campbell, when they found themselves together that day in the dining-room. Perhaps their appearance was much more noticed by the rest of the company, in consequence of their being clad, both of them, in other people's clothes ; and, as it happened, in a style of dress very different from what either of them were accustomed to wear. Mr Blair had put on a suit of Mr Semple's, made in the ordinary fashion of the time ; but, of course, in colour and in every other particular, unlike his own clerical garb. It was a plain suit of brown kerseymere, with but a very slight edging of silver, and it fitted his shape very well; but this, together with the substitution of a rich lace cravat for a linen stock, was enough to a...« less