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'Your trouble? your silence, you mean. 'It was an affair in the course of business, said Glossin, 'and I have retired from business for some time. 'Ay, but I have a notion that I could make you go steady about and try the old course again, answered Dirk Hatteraick. 'Why, man, hold me der deyvil, but I meant to visit you and tell you something that concerns you.
"It was an affair in the course of business," said Glossin, "and I have retired from business for some time." "Ay, but I have a notion that I could make you go steady about, and try the old course again," answered Dirk Hatteraick. "Why, man, hold me der deyvil, but I meant to visit you, and tell you something that concerns you." "Of the boy?" said Glossin eagerly.
"You must kindle some fire too, for hold mich der deyvil, lch bin ganz gefrorne!" "It is a cold place to be sure," said Glossin, gathering together some decayed staves of barrels and pieces of wood, which had perhaps lain in the cavern since Hatteraick was there last. "Cold?
'Der deyvil, said the leader, 'here's our mark! and two of them seized on Bertram; but one whispered in his ear, Make no resistance till you are in the street. The same individual found an instant to say to Dinmont 'Follow your friend, and help when you see the time come. In the hurry of the moment Dinmont obeyed and followed close.
"Der deyvil! hanged?" "Ay, hanged, meinheer Captain. The devil can scarce save Dirk Hatteraick from being hanged for a murderer and kidnapper, if the younker of Ellangowan should settle in this country, and if the gallant Captain chances to be caught here re-establishing his fair trade!
'Ay, and a wooden lion at the door, and a painted sentinel in the garden, with a pipe in his mouth! But, hark ye, Hatteraick, what will all the tulips and flower-gardens and pleasure-houses in the Netherlands do for you if you are hanged here in Scotland? Hatteraick's countenance fell. 'Der deyvil! hanged! 'Ay, hanged, mein Herr Captain.
'Deyvil! replied Hatteraick, 'how should I tell what he knows now? But he remembered something of it long. When he was but ten years old he persuaded another Satan's limb of an English bastard like himself to steal my lugger's khan boat what do you call it? to return to his country, as he called it; fire him!
Hatteraick jumped upright upon his feet, and looked at Glossin from head to heel. "I don't see the goat's foot," he said, "and yet he must be the very deyvil! But Meg Merrilies is closer yet with the Kobold than you are ay, and I had never such weather as after having drawn her blood. Nein, nein, I'll meddle with her no more-she's a witch of the fiend a real deyvil's kind but that's her affair.
'Wetter! will you deny that all that cursed attempt at Portanferry, which lost both sloop and crew, was your device for your own job? 'But the goods, you know 'Curse the goods! said the smuggler, 'we could have got plenty more; but, der deyvil! to lose the ship and the fine fellows, and my own life, for a cursed coward villain, that always works his own mischief with other people's hands!
The man looked at the note, then at his foot-rule and measure then verified his former measurement by a second. "They correspond," he said, "within a hair-breadth, to a foot-mark broader and shorter than the former." Hatteraick's genius here deserted him "Der deyvil!" he broke out, "how could there be a foot-mark on the ground, when it was a frost as hard as the heart of a Memel log?"
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