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'What! my good friend, said Glossin, 'will you allow the prospect of a few weeks' confinement to depress your spirit? 'Yes, answered the ruffian, sullenly, 'when I am only to be released by a halter! Let me alone; go about your business, and turn the lamp from my face! 'Psha! my dear Dirk, don't be afraid, said Glossin; 'I have a glorious plan to make all right.
Speak to me no more; I'm dangerous. 'But, Dirk but, Hatteraick, hear me only a few words. 'Hagel! nein. 'Only one sentence. 'Tousand curses! nein. 'At least get up, for an obstinate Dutch brute! said Glossin, losing his temper and pushing Hatteraick with his foot. 'Donner and blitzen! said Hatteraick, springing up and grappling with him; 'you WILL have it then?
Glossin perceived at once that the letter-writer was unacquainted with the breach which had taken place between him and his late patron. The estate of the deceased lady should by rights as he well knew, descend to Lucy Bertram, but it was a thousand to one that the caprice of the old lady might have altered its destination.
Glossin rose, opened the door, so that from the chair in which his prisoner sate he might satisfy himself there was no eavesdropper within hearing, then shut it, resumed his seat, and repeated his question, 'You are Dirk Hatteraick, formerly of the Yungfrauw Haagenslaapen, are you not? 'Tousand deyvils! and if you know that, why ask me? said the prisoner.
'Sell'd! echoed the gipsy, with something like a scream; 'and wha durst buy Ellangowan that was not of Bertram's blude? and wha could tell whether the bonny knave-bairn may not come back to claim his ain? wha durst buy the estate and the castle of Ellangowan? 'Troth, gudewife, just ane o' thae writer chields that buys a' thing; they ca' him Glossin, I think. 'Glossin!
I bin Jans Jansen, from Cuxhaven; what sall Ich bin? Glossin took from a case which was in the apartment a pair of small pocket pistols, which he loaded with ostentatious care. 'You may retire, said he to his clerk, 'and carry the people with you, Scrow; but wait in the lobby within call.
Glossin, it must be remarked, was, during the following dialogue, an the one hand eager to learn what local recollections young Bertram had retained of the scenes of his infancy, and, on the other, compelled to be extremely cautious in his replies, lest he should awaken or assist, by some name, phrase, or anecdote, the slumbering train of association.
"Well, then, gentlemen," said Glossin, drawing his chair to the table, and beginning to bustle about among the papers, "where are we? how far have we got? where are the declarations?" "Clerk, give me all these papers," said Mr. Pleydell; "I have an odd way of arranging my documents, Mr. Glossin, another person touching them puts me out-but I shall have occasion for your assistance by and by."
Why dost not comfort me, and help me out From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole? Titus Andronicus On the next morning, great was the alarm and confusion of the officers, when they discovered the escape of their prisoner. Glossin particularly recommended a careful search at the Kaim of Dernecleugh, which was occasionally occupied under night by vagrants of different descriptions.
The landlady, now as eager to throw light upon the criminal's escape as she had formerly been desirous of withholding it, for the miscellaneous contents of the purse argued strongly to her mind that all was not right, Mrs. Mac-Candlish, I say, now gave Glossin to understand, that her postilion and hostler had both seen the stranger upon the ice that day when young Hazlewood was wounded.