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accompany him to cheapen a couple of rooms of Lucky Eannie's.
She tohl him, ' Sir, you shall just have them for a guinea a week,
you furnishing coal and candle.' Baldie, with much emotion,
cried out, ' But I tell you, woman, I have no coal and candle.' "
"Boswell said of Miss Stewart, of Blackhall,* 'that more
brilliant beauties came armed with darts and attacked men as
foes, but Miss Stewart carried no weapons of destruction, and
treated with them as with allies.' "
" Lord Eglintoune said to Boswell, whose lively imagination
formed many schemes, but whose indolence hindered him from
executing them, ' Jamie, you have a light head, but a heavy
a ,' "
" Lord Eglintoune said to Boswell, who was maintaining that
by habit he would acquire the power of application to business,
' Application must be an original vigour of mind. The arm of
any blacksmith may become so strong by habit that he may
gain his bread ; but if he has not natural strength he will never
make excellent work.' "
" The Spaniards are a noble people ; at least, their gentlemen
have great souls. At a famous battle there was a brave Spanish
officer who had been wounded in many actions, and had but one
eye left. A bullet came and struck it out as he was charging at
the head of his troops, and wounded him mortally. With calm
and solemn dignity he called to his men, ' Bonas noctias, cavi-
lieros ' (' Good night, my fellow-soldiers ')." Mr. Eose.
" A German baron, newly arrived at Paris in a suit trimmed
with almaches — that is, small lace disposed so as to look like
horns — went to the theatre Just in his travelling dress, and
getting behind the scenes showed himself upon the stage. The
Parterre began to make a noise like the firing of cannon. One
* Miss Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Sir Michael Stewart,
Bart., of Blackhall, married in 1764 Sir William Maxwell, Bart., of
Springkell. She had a younger sister, Eleanora, who died unmarried.