Sorry am I that the shackles of modern
decorum restrain me from penning that famous rebuke; fragments
of which have been attributed to every divine of old notoriety
throughout Scotland. But 1 have it by heart; and a glorious morsel
it is to put into the hands of certain incendiaries. The metaphors
are so strong and so appalling that Miss Logan could only stand
them a very short time; she was obliged to withdraw in confusion.
The laird stood his ground with much ado, though his face was
often crimsoned over with the hues of shame and anger. Several
times he was on the point of turning the officious sycophant to
the door; but good manners, and an inherent respect that lie
entertained for the clergy, as the immediate servants of the
Supreme Being, restrained him.
Wringhim, perceiving these symptoms of resentment, took them
for marks of shame and contrition, and pushed his reproaches
farther than ever divine ventured to do in a similar case. When he
had finished, to prevent further discussion, he walked slowly and
majestically out of the apartment, making his robes to swing
behind him in a most magisterial manner; he being, without
doubt, elated with his high conquest.
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