“True friendship, when fwok throw aseyde,
What then are riches, preyde, or power?—
Vain gewgaws! Mekin sec their gueyde,
May sair repent lang ere deeth’s hour.
“True friendship that can ne’er cause streyfe,
But e’en keep frae distress and pain,
An’ show what bliss it gie’s thro’ leyfe,
In every bwosom still sud reign.?
Friendship. Ballad, by Robert Anderson.
We must leave Miss Chutney for awhile imprisoned in the linen room, and return to Mr. Sandboys, imprisoned in the police cell; for it was during the absence of himself and wife from Parthenon House, that the incidents detailed in the previous chapter had taken place.