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"Boar's den?" repeated Montaiglon interrogatively. "The head of the pig is his Grace's cognisance. Clan Diarmaid must have got it first by raiding in some Appin stye, as Petullo my doer down-by says. He is like most men of his trade, Petullo; he is ready to make his treasonable joke even against the people who pay him wages, and I know he gets the wages of the Duke as well as my fees.
"Are you no' weel the night?" she asked. "Sartain. I never was sick in my life." "And how are they all down-by?" meaning at Mr Snow's house, by "down-by." "Well, pretty much so. Only just middling. Nothing to brag of, in the way of smartness." There was a long silence after that. Mr Snow sat with folded arms, looking out on the scene before them.
Give me my own acres and my own people about me, and it would be a short day indeed from the rise of the sun till bedtime a short day and a happy. My father used, after a week or two at home, to walk round the point of Strome where you were to-day and look at the skiffs and gabberts in the port down-by, and the sight never failed to put frolic in the blood of him.
But she said nothing aloud, waiting for his explanation. "I thought there was no need of it myself, but she said she knew better." "Very likely she was right too," said Nan. "And now you must tell me all about what is going on down-by. Are they looking for me? What is my father saying? Do they blame me?"
After all, there are more Drimdarrochs than one in the Highlands, for the name means just 'the place at the back of the oak-wood or the oaken shaw, and oaks are as plentiful hereabout as the lawyers are in the burgh down-by.
About the castle down-by his Grace has a corps of all kinds that you might pick from nine times out of ten without striking an honest man.
He stooped and picked up from the confused heap of legal scrivenings by finger-tips that seemed to fear infection a parchment fouled with its passage through the courts and law offices. "You're in luck indeed," said he; "for there's Drimdarroch all that's left of it to me: the land itself is in the hands of my own doer, Petullo the writer down-by, and scab seize his bestial!"
It was quite a light-hearted recluse this, compared with that he had left a week ago. "I am not surprised you found yon place dull," at the last hazarded the Baron. "Comment?" "Down-by, I mean. I'm glad myself always to get home out of it at this season.
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