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'We must try, answered the legal sage, 'what proof can be got at in Holland among the persons by whom our young friend was educated. But then the fear of being called in question for the murder of the gauger may make them silent; or, if they speak, they are either foreigners or outlawed smugglers. In short, I see doubts.
Dirk Hatteraick vowed, in Dutch, German, and English, a deep and full revenge, both against the gauger and his abettors; and all who knew him thought it likely he would keep his word. A few days after the departure of the gipsy tribe, Mr. Bertram asked his lady one morning at breakfast whether this was not little Harry's birthday.
He knew by bitter experience how precarious the business of farming was, and thought that a certain salary, even though small, would always stand between his family and absolute want. 'I know not, he wrote to Ainslie, 'how the word exciseman, or, still more opprobrious, gauger, will sound in your ears.
The rest of the gang had trooped away to the mouth of the cave to prepare the lugger, save only two or three who stood on guard round the ill-fated gauger.
"Be you a officer?" "You'll find out whether I am or not!" said the furious policeman, standing up and blowing his whistle again. "Then watcher doin' here?" "I'm here mindin' my own business, I was sent here to look after this house orders of the Chief. Who in thunder are you?" "This here's the Kunsterble," said Gregory the Gauger, nodding his head toward Eb, "an' we've ketched the burglars.
To be sure, had Dundas, or whoever got Burns the place of gauger, given him one of the many sinecures of two or three hundred pounds a year that were wasted on idle scions of titled families, an aureole of glory would now shine through the darkness that environs the memory of George III. So much for George Guelf. Now for Thomas Carlyle.
Daddles called "black- hearted Gregory the Gauger." "You ought to be ashamed of yerself," said he, "leadin' boys into crime!" "Do you mean me?" asked Mr. Daddles. "Yas I mean you, in the white pants," he replied, looking with great scorn at Mr. Daddles's duck trousers, "I've heard how you perfessional crooks git boys to climb up on water spouts an' let yer in.
"When one sees a beautiful thing and feels the beauty a privilege which is probably never denied at all times to any of God's creatures, and does not belong exclusively to the high born or the learned he is a poet, be he a gauger or a butler. Aye, sir, a man may be a poet when his nose is right over the mouth of a bottle of burgundy, vintage '81."
But now and then a landlord or an agent or a gauger will go by begging his bread, to show how God divides the righteous from the unrighteous. 1892 and 1902. Sometimes when I have been shut off from common interests, and have for a little forgotten to be restless, I get waking dreams, now faint and shadow-like, now vivid and solid-looking, like the material world under my feet.
I'm afear'd we shall find him a sad jackanapes. Jem Hathaway, the gauger, told me last market-day that he saw him one Sunday in the what-dye-call't the Park there, covered with rings, and gold chains, and fine velvets all green and gold, like our great peacock. Well! we shall soon see. He comes to-night, you say?
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