"All his wants were well supplied." "And, Dinah--my bottle of pale sherry, Dinah--place it on this side--there's a good girl;--and, Toby--get my jug with the hot water--and let it be boiling--and don't spill it on Lady Penelope, if you can help it, Toby." "No--for her ladyship has been in hot water to-day already," said the Squire; a sarcasm to which Lady Penelope only replied with a look of contempt. "And, Dinah, bring the sugar--the soft East India sugar, Dinah--and a lemon, Dinah, one of those which came fresh to-day--Go fetch it from the bar, Toby--and don't tumble down stairs, if you can help it.--And, Dinah--stay, Dinah--the nutmeg, Dinah, and the ginger, my good girl--And, Dinah--put the cushion up behind my back--and the footstool to my foot, for my toe is something the worse of my walk with your ladyship this morning to the top of Belvidere." "Her ladyship may call it what she pleases in common parlance," said the writer; "but it must stand Munt-grunzie in the stamped paper, being so nominated in the ancient writs and evidents thereof." "And, Dinah," continued the president, "lift up my handkerchief--and--a bit of biscuit, Dinah--and--and I do not think I want any thing else--Look to the company, my good girl.--I have the honour to drink the company's very good health--Will your ladyship honour me by accepting a glass of negus?--I learned to make negus from old Dartineuf's son.--He always used East India sugar and added a tamarind--it improves the flavour infinitely.--Dinah, see your father sends for some tamarinds--Dartineuf knew a good thing almost as well as his father--I met him at Bath in the year--let me see--Garrick was just taking leave, and that was in," &c. &c. &c.--"And what is this now, Dinah?" he said, as she put into his hand a roll of paper. "Something that Nelly Trotter" (Trotting Nelly, as the company called her) "brought from a sketching gentleman that lives at the woman's" (thus bluntly did the upstart minx describe the reverend Mrs. Margaret Dods) "at the Cleikum of Aultoun yonder"--A name, by the way, which the inn had acquired from the use which the saint upon the sign-post was making of his pastoral crook.