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One was to announce their arrival in the town of Dunkirk in France, from which place James shortly after started alone upon a private mission. This was to England and to see Lord Holderness; and it has always been a bitter thought that my good money helped to pay the charges of the same. But he has need of a long spoon who soups with the de'il, or James More either.
"Let Cobbett of borough-corruption complain, And go to the De'il with the bones of Tom Paine." The two were classed together by English Conservatives, as "pestilent fellows" and "promoters of sedition." It is now fifty years since Paine died; but the nil de mortuis is no rule in his case. The evil associations of his later days have pursued him beyond the grave.
"De'il tak' the body!" he grumbled, sitting up and stretching himself as he glanced along the beach; "he's lang o' comin'."
Such warm-hearted simplicity is very agreeable, and it was a vast change from the world of the Americans, especially of the West, where the watchword was: "Every man for himsel', and the de'il tak' the hindmost." It may be remarked here that the de'il often took the foremost, too!
King James I. mounting a horse that was unruly, said, "The de'il tak' my saul, sirrah, and ye be na quiet, I'll send ye to the five hundred kings in the House of Commons they'll soon tame you." On the road to Hastings are two hotels, nearly opposite one another, the one kept by a person of the name of Hogsflesh, the other by a person named Bacon.
He had forgotten something: he had nothing in case of sickness. "Master, you know my voyage is long; my work is hard; the winter is severe. I am not very strong now: I may fall ill. My wife she is not very strong may fall ill also. My son-in-law is not very strong: he may fall ill too. My daughter is not. . . ." "De'il ha'e ye!" roared the Factor, "what is't the noo?"
And the little knot of faithful admirers who, according to custom, daily assembled by one's and two's about the inn door at Moffat to wait the coming of the coach their one excitement agreed that "MacGeorge would gang on if the de'il himsel' stude across the road." MacGeorge was guard of the mail-coach, a fine, determined man, an old soldier, one imbued with abnormally strong sense of duty.
And neither does auld Cuthbert, honest man! But wae's me, me leddy, whate'er our convictions may be, we canna disprove the lees o' yon de'il." "No, we cannot," said Claudia, with a sigh of despair; "and unless Providence intervenes to save me, I am lost." "Aweel, me leddy, ye maun just hope that he will intervene.
An' gin a watch stops a'thegither, ye ken it's failin', an' ye ken whaur it sticks, an' a' 'at ye say 's "Tut, tut, de'il hae 't for a watch!" But there's ae thing that God nor man canna bide in a watch, an' that's whan it stan's still for a bittock, an' syne gangs on again. Ay, ay! tic, tic, tic! wi' a fair face and a leein' hert.
"And the coosp, now, mistress; Hamish here will no' be believing me, but there's de'il the halt better for the coosp than" and so his talk went on, and him not believing one word.
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