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'Nothing, my lord, answered Bladderskate, much too formal to admire the levities in which his philosophical brother sometimes indulged 'I say nothing, but pray to Heaven to keep our own wits. 'Amen, amen, answered his learned brother; 'for some of us have but few to spare.
'This is a daft cause, Bladderskate first, it drives the poor man mad that aught it then your nevoy goes daft with fright, and flies the pit then this smart young hopeful is aff the hooks with too hard study, I fancy and now auld Saunders Fairford is as lunatic as the best of them. What say ye till't, ye bitch?
'Entirely out of favour to my old acquaintance your father, said Peter. with a benign and patronizing countenance, 'out of respect to your father, and my old intimacy with Lord Bladderskate. Otherwise, by the REGIAM MAJESTATEM! I would have presented a petition and complaint against Daniel Dumtoustie, Advocate, by name and surname I would, by all the practiques!
Even Lord Bladderskate, however, was, in spite of himself, pleased with the judicious and modest tone in which Alan began his address to the court, apologizing for his own presumption, and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother, for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been much more worthily designed.
Lord Bladderskate was an exception to this general expression of benevolence.
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