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He was not, however, subjected to any direct restraint, but was ushered into an apartment where he was requested to await the arrival of the gentleman with whom he wished to have an interview, and who, as Crackenthorp assured, him with a significant nod, would be certainly there in the course of an hour.
To be sure, he didn't say anything particular no, except that about the tinder-box but it isn't what a man says, it's the way he says it. Moreover, he had a swarthy foreignness of complexion which boded little honesty. "Did he wear ear-rings?" Mr. Crackenthorp wished to know, having some acquaintance with foreign customs. "Well stay let me see," said Mr.
Crackenthorp a small blinking woman, who fidgeted incessantly with her lace, ribbons, and gold chain, turning her head about and making subdued noises, very much like a guinea-pig that twitches its nose and soliloquizes in all company indiscriminately now blinked and fidgeted towards the Squire, and said, "Oh, no no offence."
'Aye, aye, captain; we will be ready in a jiffy, answered the gang. 'D n your captains! Have you a mind to have me hanged if I am taken? All's hail-fellow, here. 'A sup at parting, said Father Crackenthorp, extending a flask to Nanty Ewart. 'Not the twentieth part of a drop, said Nanty.
Father Crackenthorp, I must leave this young fellow with you till the gale blows out hark ye goes between the laird and the t'other old one; he can neither ride nor walk I must send him up to you.
Here Nixon gave way to his suppressed resentment, and turning sternly on Crackenthorp, threatened him with his master's severest displeasure, because things were in such bad order to receive his family, when he had given such special advice that he desired to be private. But Father Crackenthorp was not a man to be brow-beaten.
'To a place where you will be as snug and quiet as a mouse in his hole, said Nanty, 'if so be that we can get you there safely. Good-bye, Father Crackenthorp poison the quartermaster, if you can.
Crackenthorp saying good words, and more partic'lar on Sacramen' Day; and if a bit o' trouble comes, I feel as I can put up wi' it, for I've looked for help i' the right quarter, and gev myself up to Them as we must all give ourselves up to at the last; and if we'n done our part, it isn't to be believed as Them as are above us 'ull be worse nor we are, and come short o' Their'n."
And yet, 'tis strange, he had never read Cicero, nor Quintilian de Oratore, nor Isocrates, nor Aristotle, nor Longinus, amongst the antients; nor Vossius, nor Skioppius, nor Ramus, nor Farnaby, amongst the moderns; and what is more astonishing, he had never in his whole life the least light or spark of subtilty struck into his mind, by one single lecture upon Crackenthorp or Burgersdicius or any Dutch logician or commentator; he knew not so much as in what the difference of an argument ad ignorantiam, and an argument ad hominem consisted; so that I well remember, when he went up along with me to enter my name at Jesus College in..., it was a matter of just wonder with my worthy tutor, and two or three fellows of that learned society, that a man who knew not so much as the names of his tools, should be able to work after that fashion with them.
'Nothing, said Crackenthorp, 'but that I can tour out as well as another you understand me keep good lights in my upper story know a thing or two more than most folk in this country. If folk will come to my house on dangerous errands, egad they shall not find Joe Crackenthorp a cat's-paw. I'll keep myself clear, you may depend on it, and let every man answer for his own actions that's my way.
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