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Administration.
There must be government in all society —
Bees have their Queen, and stag-herds have their leader;
Rome had her Consuls2, Athens had her Archons,
And we, sir, have our Managing Committee.
The Album of St. Ronan’s.
Francis Tyrrel was, in the course of the next day, formally settled in his old quarters, where he announced his purpose of remaining for several days. The old-established carrier of the place brought his fishing-rod and travelling-trunk, with a letter to Meg, dated a week previously4, desiring her to prepare to receive an old acquaintance. This annunciation, though something of the latest, Meg received with great complacency, observing it was a civil attention in Maister Tirl; and that John Hislop, though he was not just sae fast, was far surer than ony post of them a’, or express either. She also observed with satisfaction, that there was no gun-case along with her guest’s baggage; “for that weary gunning had brought him and her into trouble — the lairds had cried out upon’t, as if she made her house a howff for common fowlers and poachers; and yet how could she hinder twa daft hempie callants from taking a start and an ower-loup?10 They had been ower the neighbour’s ground they had leave on up to the march, and they werena just to ken6 meiths when the moorfowl got up.”
In a day or two, her guest fell into such quiet and solitary7 habits, that Meg, herself the most restless and bustling8 of human creatures, began to be vexed9, for want of the trouble which she expected to have had with him, experiencing, perhaps, the same sort of feeling from his extreme and passive indifference10 on all points, that a good horseman has for the over-patient steed, which he can scarce feel under him. His walks were devoted
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