Scotland/Scots > Man of feeling

2 THE MAN OF FEELING.
will, are fo vivacious, fo eternally on
the wing, that they muft,- even in fmall
focieties, have a frequent collifion; the
rull therefore will wear off fooner: but
in Britain, it often goes with a man to
his grave; nay, he dares not even per
a hie jacet to fpeak out for him after his
death.
“ Let them rub it off by travel,”
faid the baronet’s brother, who was a
ftriking inftance of excellent metal,
lhamefully rufted. I had drawn my
chair near his. Let me paint the honeft
old man : ’tis but one palling fentence
to preferve his image in my mind.
He fat in his ufual attitude, with his
elbow refted on his knee, and his fingers
preffed on his cheek. His face was
fhaded by his hand j yet it was a face
that