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"Begging my paurdon 'll no dae," was the retort, "I'm gaun to gie ye a skelp o' the lug!" "I hope you will accept my apology," the pale-faced young gentleman continued in the same stiff and embarrassed manner. "I don't know whether it is worth while my offering any excuse for what I did except that it was done under a misapprehension.
"Paurdon! paurdon!" said Mungo, every part of the chart-like face thrilled with some uncontrollable sense of drollery, and he exploded in laughter more violent than ever. "Mungo!" cried his master in the accent of authority. The domestic drew himself swiftly to attention. "Mungo!" said his master, "you're a damned fool! In the army ye would have got the triangle for a good deal less.
"Ye'll paurdon my discretion, for it's a pernikity hoose this for a' the auld bauld, gallant forms and ceremonies. I jalouse ye came roond in a wherry frae the toon, and it's droll I never saw ye land. There was never mony got into Doom withoot the kennin' o' the garrison. It happened aince in Black Hugh's time wi' a corps o' Campbells frae Ardkinglas, and they found themselves in a wasp's byke."
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