General Invitations, 197 Confessors, 205 A Chapter of Political Economy, 209 The Drama, 214 Recognitions, 218 The Ladye that I Love, 226 Pay your Debt! 227 Children, 238 Tea-Drinking, 246 Husbands and Wives, 249 They, 255 Relations, 258 The Strangers’ Nook, 261 Nobody to be Despised, 265 Trust to Yourself, 270 Leisure, 275 My Native Bay, 278 Advancement in Life, 279 Controllers-General, 286 A Turn for Business, 291 Setting up, 296 Consuls, 303 Country and Town Acquaintances, 309 Where is my Trunk? 314 SPIRIT OF CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL. LADY JEAN.—A TALE. The Yerl o’ Wigton had three dauchters, Oh, braw walie! they were bonnie! The youngest o’ them, and the bonniest too, Has fallen in love wi’ Richie Storie. _Old Ballad._ The Earl of Wigton, whose name figures in Scottish annals of the reign of Charles the Second, had three daughters, named Lady Frances, Lady Grizel, and Lady Jean—the last being by several years the youngest, and by many degrees the most beautiful. All the three usually resided with their mother at the chief seat of the family, Cumbernauld House, in Stirlingshire; but the two eldest were occasionally permitted to attend their father at Edinburgh, in order that they might have some chance of obtaining lovers at the court held there by the Duke of Lauderdale, while Lady Jean was kept constantly at home, and debarred from the society of the capital, lest her superior beauty might interfere with, and foil, the attractions of her sisters, who, according to the notion of that age, had a sort of _right of primogeniture_ in matrimony, as well as in what was called _heirship_.