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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. AT THE WINDOW. The Flesh Market Close is not an aristocratic place to dine at, but at this date it was the best in Edinburgh; and people who had or affected oldfashioned habits, ignored its proximity to a great meat market, and wandered into it at mid-day when they were hungry. Usher went because the sheriff went, and he did not choose to overlook a single opportunity of cultivating his acquaintance. It was a dingy region, with all the whistling of the engines of the North British Railway coming up to it, undeafened, and all the banging and smashing of goods trains which were being shunted for the travellers' goods. He met Porteous there one day by appointment, and that safe broker, sitting down at the table with him, broached a large sanguinary steak and a tankard, and began to talk about Ruddersdale. "I have a letter from Leslie every post," he said. "Have you? What has he got to say?" "He says something different every mail." "Yes, I shouldn't suppose his gold to be a permanent quantity. Can't you change the company, Porteous, and make it peats, herrings, or birds' eggs?" "Can't be done, sir. It's gold or nothing." "Yes, I think it is the latter. Waiter, I've told you half-a-dozen times that I don't like vinegar in my mustard. I can stand a little vinegar in a salad, but I like my mustard unadulterated as it comes from the fields, and I prefer a spoon which has not done duty as a toddy-ladle last night nor as an egg-spoon this morning--a spoon for the mustard, you understand; and we will ring for you, waiter, when we want to tell you about last week's weather and the prospects of the crops." "You use great liberties with him. See if your steak comes up to-morrow as good as it is to-day." "He annoys me, rather, on occasions like this, Porteous...
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