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Yet the conversation in all companies not literary turns upon persons rather than things; and your wits learn their art only in the School for Scandal. "Only think, Fanny," said Saville, "of Clavers turning beau in his old age!
In particular, although the whole district suffered, it was in the vale of the Nith, and in the hilly portion of the parish of Closeburn, that the fury of Grierson, Dalzell, and Johnstone not to mention an occasional simoom, felt on the withering approach of Clavers with his lambs was felt to the full amount of merciless persecution and relentless cruelty.
My certies! if Clavers, or Sherp, or Lauderdale had an inklin' o' the hunderd pairt o' the law-brekin' that I've done, it's a gallows in the Gressmarkit as high as Haman's wad be ereckit for me, an' my heed an' hauns, may be, would be bleachin' on the Nether Bow. Humph! but they've no' gotten me yet!"
"Robertson's done up," said he to himself; "thae young lads are aye sae thoughtless. What deevil could he hae to say to Jeanie Deans, or to ony woman on earth, that he suld gang awa and get his neck raxed for her? And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!
"It was no the kirk o' his fathers the auld God trusting kirk that Clavers dragoonit down by burns and muirsides. It was a' gane dead an' dry; a piece of Auld-Bailey barristration anent soul-saving dodges. What did he want wi' proofs o' the being o' God, an' o' the doctrine o' original sin? He could see eneugh o' them ayont the shop-door, ony tide.
'It will have been a merman, Rorie said. 'A merman! screamed my uncle with immeasurable scorn. 'Auld wives' clavers! There's nae sic things as mermen. 'But what was the creature like? I asked. 'What like was it? Gude forbid that we suld ken what like it was! It had a kind of a heid upon it man could say nae mair.
It was neither Clavers, however, nor Lag, nor Johnstone, nor Winram, who was upon them; but only Captain Douglas, from Drumlanrig, to which place secret information of the night's wark, as it was termed, had been conveyed.
"Bluidy Clavers" was Sheriff of Wigtown in her day, and in her presence he dared to inveigh against one who was still the idol of Presbyterian Whigs, John Knox. "Why are you so severe on the character of John Knox?" asked the Lady Stair. "You are both reformers: he gained his point by clavers; you attempt to gain yours by knocks."
I could have wished, though, they had rather putten a ball through him, or a dirk; for the fashion of removing him will give rise to mony idle clavers But every wight has his weird, and we maun a' dee when our day comes And naebody will deny that Helen MacGregor has deep wrongs to avenge."
Now I think you will all agree with me that the whole composition would have been better without this introduction. Sarah Clavers had a genuine idea, which she had explained to the other girls much in this way. "I know what Miss Winstanley means. She means this.
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