John Leech and other papers Author:John Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'She's very weel, and shortly to be married,'replied her ladyship. ' To whom, may I beg leave to ask ?' ' To the Prince of Monaco.' ' A friend of mine,'... more » said the Count; but the name was not familiar to any of the rest of the party. ' I 'll gie ye a Scotch mark,' she said to Mr. Ferguson ; ' it was his father that thought a' the lamps in London had been lighted up in honour of his arrival, and, as he drove through the city, he exclaimed with delight, " I 've often heard the English was a polite nation, but this is too much." I believe,' she added, ' my Jean will be a great match for him, for his principality is the very smallest in Italy; it lies, I believe, on the shore of the Mediterranean.' The Count bit his lip. ' It does,' said he, ' and the gentleman is my particular friend; he is now the ,' I forget the name. In the drawing-room, Mr. Elliot hastened to the side of his new friend, and many was the story they successively told. ' You carry the leeches on your shield ?' said Mr. Elliot. ' And the lion for the crest. I am the lion,' she replied. ' I was once a hare myself,' returned he; and he began a story he had told the night before—how hehad acted the part of a hare to the astonishment of an old gentleman in the neighbourhood of Minto; before the end of it, however, he caught the expression of the lady's eye, and lifting up the veil which shaded her features, exclaimed—' Now, I have found the Lion of Pitlyal.' DINNER PARTY AT LORD GILLIES'S. Sir Walter Scott expressed a wish to see a personation, and Lord Gillies made a party for the purpose, among whom were Sir Walter and Miss Scott, Sir Henry and Lady Jardine, the Lord Chief Commissioner and Miss Adam, Doctor Coventry, the Chief Baron, Sir Samuel Shepherd, and others. Among other things ...« less