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304 BOSWELLIANA.
have forgot spoons ? ' * I suppose, my dear,' says his lady, ' that
he has been thinking of knives and forks.' " I was present.
" We are apt to imagine that the Turks are a brutal sort of
people, totally given up to gross sensuality, and altogether void
of gay fancy or the finer feelings. As an instance to the con-
trary, my Lord Galloway tells that he was sitting at Constanti-
nople with a Turkish gentleman, who, although a true jMussulman
took a glass of wine. The custom there is not for a company
to drink all at once, like a regiment going through their evolu-
tions, but as the intention of drinking is to cheer the spirits,
they take a cup of the liquor which stands before them just as
they feel themselves in need of it. This Turk, after having,
taken three or four bumpers of champagne, pointed to a lamp
which hung above their heads, as they never use candles. ' This,'
says he, ' my lord, is to me as the oil is to that lamp.' A pretty
allusion, as if it lighted him up." Lord Kenmore.*
" My lord having shown to the same gentleman a picture of
Lady Garlies,t he looked at it a long time very attentively, and
then asked my lord, with a good deal of emotion, whose picture
it was. My lord answered that it was the picture of his lady,
who had died just before he left his native country, ' My lord,'
said the Turk, ' you have the strongest constitution, and have a
chance to live longer than any man I ever met with.' And being
asked his reason for saying so, ' Because, my lord, you have
been able to survive so fine a woman.' A noble expression of a
feeling heart." Lord Kenmore.
" Sdinger, a gentleman of Ireland, remarkable for humour
and spirit, had got himself drunk one night, and had broke
* John, tenth Viscount Kenmure. Died 21st September, 1824.
He was Vice-Lieutenant of Kirkcudbrightshire.
t John, seventh Earl of Galloway, had as his first wife Charlotte
Mary, daughter of Francis, first Earl of "Warwick. He bore by
courtesy the title of Lord Garlies before succeeding his father as
Earl in 1773.