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Your people dispersed, broken, gone, or cut to ribbands by the redcoats. 'Der deyvil! this coast is fatal to me. 'Ye may hae mair reason to say sae. While this dialogue went forward, Bertram and Dinmont had both gained the interior of the cave and assumed an erect position.
Ere Glossin had got upon his feet, the hoarse yet suppressed voice of Hatteraick growled through the recesses of the cave: 'Hagel and donner! be'st du? 'Are you in the dark? 'Dark? der deyvil! ay, said Dirk Hatteraick; 'where should I have a glim? 'I have brought light'; and Glossin accordingly produced a tinder- box and lighted a small lantern.
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.
'Because I am surprised to see you in the very last place where you ought to be, if you regard your safety, observed Glossin, coolly. 'Der deyvil! no man regards his own safety that speaks so to me! 'What? unarmed, and in irons! well said, Captain! replied Glossin, ironically.
'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.
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