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Should he cross me again, I shall consider the old accompt as balanced, and his Mastership will do well to look to himself." "That he should," re-echoed Craigengelt; "for when you are in practice, Bucklaw, I would bet a magnum you are through him before the third pass." "Then you know nothing of the matter," said Bucklaw, "and you never saw him fence."
"I tell you what it is, Captain Craigengelt," said Bucklaw; "I shall keep my mind to myself on thse subjects, having too much respect for the memory of my venerable Aunt Girnington to put her lands and tenements in the way of committing treason against established authority.
What could persuade Bucklaw to send me such a message?" "For that, sir," replied Craigengelt, "I am desired to refer you to what, in duty to my friend, I am to term your inhospitality in excluding him from your house, without reasons assigned." "It is impossible," replied the Master; "he cannot be such a fool as to interpret actual necessity as an insult.
"Patience, Bucklaw," said Craigengelt, interrupting his companion, who seemed about to make an angry reply. "The Master has been interrupted in his purpose by some accident; but he must excuse the anxious curiosity of friends who are devoted to his cause like you and me."
"Ay, but I liked her very well then. And Ravenswood's dirty usage of me shutting me out of doors to dine with the lackeys, because he had the Lord Keeper, forsooth, and his daughter, to be guests in his beggarly castle of starvation, d n me, Craigengelt, if I ever forgive him till I play him as good a trick!"
Craigengelt," he added, in an undertone, "d n ye, why do you stand staring as if you saw a ghost? fetch me my sword from the gallery." "I will relinquish to none," said Colonel Ashton, "my right of calling to account the man who has offered this unparalleled affront to my family."
Craigengelt rose, went a-tiptoe to the door, peeped out, shut it carefully, came back again, clapped his tarnished gold-laced hat on one side of his head, took his glass in one hand, and touching the hilt of his hanger with the other, named, "The King over the water."
'Craigengelt, he used to say, 'you are as pretty a fellow as ever held steel in his grip, but you have one fault." "If he had known you as long as I have don," said Bucklaw, "he would have found out some twenty more; but hand long stories, give us your toast, man."
"Triflers!" echoed Colonel Ashton, half unsheathing his sword, while Bucklaw laid his hand on the hilt of that which Craigengelt had just reached him. Sir William Ashton, alarmed for his son's safety, rushed between the young men and Ravenswood, exclaiming: "My son, I command you Bucklaw, I entreat you keep the peace, in the name of the Queen and of the law!"
"Nothing, only two lines I have heard upon the stage," replied his companion. "Bucklaw," said Craigengelt, "I sometimes think you should have been a stage-player yourself; all is fancy and frolic with you." "I have often thought so myself," said Bucklaw. "I believe it would be safer than acting with you in the Fatal Conspiracy.
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