Note 1. The assemblies on a lady’s visiting day required no invitations. The rooms were open to any person acquainted with members of the family.
Note 2. Southerners are respectfully informed that the use of only for but is a Northern peculiarity.
Note 3. Sensitive, delicate.
Chapter Nine.
Difficulties.
“And ’t was na for a Popish yoke
That bravest men came forth
To part wi’ life and dearest ties,
And a’ that life was worth.”
Jacobite Ballad.
“Ephraim Hebblethwaite!” I cried out.
“I believe so,” he said, laughing.