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Incense was burning on a tripod placed upon the floor, and the priests muttering prayers, which sounded very like incantations, ever and anon threw some new perfume upon the charcoal, which produced what our friend Dousterswivel would call a "suffumigation."
"I hae been wishing muckle to meet wi' your leddyship for ye ken I darena come to the house for Dousterswivel." "I heard indeed," said Miss Wardour, dropping an alms into the bonnet "I heard that you had done a very foolish, if not a very bad thing, Edie and I was sorry to hear it." "Hout, my bonny leddy fulish?
Dousterswivel accordingly took the place which the beggar had evacuated, and toiled with all the zeal that awakened avarice, mingled with the anxious wish to finish the undertaking and leave the place as soon as possible, could inspire in a mind at once greedy, suspicious, and timorous.
After two days of special devotion they were to search for the long-lost weapon; on the third day the workmen began to dig, but until the sun had set they toiled in vain. The darkness of night made it easier for the chaplain to play the part which Sir Walter Scott, in the Antiquary, assigns to Herman Dousterswivel in the ruins of St. Ruth.
"De devil, goot Edie," answered Dousterswivel, "why does you speak so loud as a baarenhauter, or what you call a factionary I mean a sentinel?" "Just because I thought I was a sentinel at that moment," answered the mendicant. "Here's an awsome night! Hae ye brought the lantern and a pock for the siller?"
"I'll neer believe that," answered Ringan; "Edie was ken'd to me, and my father before me, for a true, loyal, and sooth-fast man; and, mair by token, he's sleeping up yonder in our barn, and has been since ten at e'en Sae touch ye wha liket, Mr. Dousterswivel, and whether onybody touched ye or no, I'm sure Edie's sackless."
"Well," replied Oldbuck; "but you must tell me the when the where-the how." "The when," answered Sir Arthur, "was at midnight the last full moon the where, as I have told you, in the ruins of St. Ruth's priory the how, was by a nocturnal experiment of Dousterswivel, accompanied only by myself." "Indeed!" said Oldbuck; "and what means of discovery did you employ?"
"But, Dousterswivel," said the simple Baronet, "does not this look like magic? I am a true though unworthy son of the Episcopal church, and I will have nothing to do with the foul fiend." "Bah! bah! not a bit magic in it at all not a bit It is all founded on de planetary influence, and de sympathy and force of numbers. I will show you much finer dan dis.
To the first general questions, which respected only his name and calling, the mendicant answered with readiness and accuracy; but when the magistrate, having caused his clerk to take down these particulars, began to inquire whereabout the mendicant was on the night when Dousterswivel met with his misfortune, Edie demurred to the motion.
"Nothing good as yet," said the Baronet, turning himself hastily, as if stung by a pang of the gout; "but Dousterswivel does not despair." "Does he not?" quoth Oldbuck; "I do though, under his favour. Why, old Dr.
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