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Dousterswivel, is this you? could not ye have let us ken an ye had wussed till hae been present at the ceremony? My lord couldna tak it weel your coming blinking and jinking in, in that fashion." "In de name of all dat is gootness, tell me what you are?" interrupted the German in his turn.
"It must have been the machinery which we condemned to the flames in our wrath," said the Antiquary, plucking up heart, though not a little ashamed of having been the cause of so much disturbance "The devil take Dousterswivel with all my heart! I think he has bequeathed us a legacy of blunders and mischief, as if he had lighted some train of fireworks at his departure.
"Oh, mine good patrons, do not speak about all dat," said Dousterswivel, "as just now, but help me to put de shtone to de rights, and let us begone our own ways."
"If ye'll let me hear the question," said Edie, with the caution of a canny Scotchman, "I'll tell you whether I'll answer it or no." "It is simply," said the Antiquary, "Did Dousterswivel know anything about the concealment of the chest of bullion?"
Dousterswivel less than justice. He has undertaken to make this discovery by the use of his art, and by applying characters descriptive of the Intelligences presiding over the planetary hour in which the experiment is to be made; and you require him to proceed, under pain of punishment, without allowing him the use of any of the preliminaries which he considers as the means of procuring success."
Well, among the novels of Scott, I was going to say, none perhaps more grows upon our preference than the Antiquary. Do you remember the Priory of St. Ruth, and the pleasant summer party made to visit it, and the preparation for the subsequent rogueries of Dousterswivel, in the tale of Martin Waldeck, and the discovery of a spring of water by means of the divining rod?
A' the world's fules and how should auld Edie Ochiltree be aye wise? And for the evil let them wha deal wi' Dousterswivel tell whether he gat a grain mair than his deserts." "That may be true, Edie, and yet," said Miss Wardour, "you may have been very wrong." "Weel, weel, we'se no dispute that e'ennow it's about yoursell I'm gaun to speak. Div ye ken what's hanging ower the house of Knockwinnock?"
"Well then, Dousterswivel, with every confidence in my courage and your skill, we will dispense with this apparition, and go on to the business of the night." "With all mine heart it is just one thing to me and now it is de time hold you de sword till I kindle de little what you call chip."
"Dat is great pity," said Dousterswivel; "I should have liked to show you de spirit dat guard dis treasure like one fierce watchdog but I know how to manage him; you would not care to see him?" "Not at all," answered the Baronet, in a tone of feigned indifference; "I think we have but little time."
"It is unnecessary to translate," said Miss Wardour "I comprehend your general meaning; but I hope Mr. Dousterswivel will turn out a more trustworthy character." "I doubt it not a little," said the Antiquary, "and we are a foul way out if we cannot discover this infernal vein that he has prophesied about these two years." "You have no great interest in the matter, Mr. Oldbuck," said the Baronet.
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