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And this I knew could signify but one thing, the coming of a messenger for Durrisdeer. I laid aside the remainder of my terrors, clambered down the brae a place I had never ventured through before, and was hid among the shore-side thickets in time to see the boat touch.
But if you go, and the expedition fails, we divide the right and the title. And what shall I be then?" "You will be Lord Durrisdeer," said the Master. "I put all I have upon the table." "I play at no such game," cries Mr. Henry. "I shall be left in such a situation as no man of sense and honour could endure. I shall be neither fish nor flesh!" he cried.
For the matter of three weeks we continued to live together in the house of Durrisdeer: the beginning of that most singular chapter of my life what I must call my intimacy with the Master. At first he was somewhat changeable in his behaviour: now civil, now returning to his old manner of flouting me to my face; and in both I met him half-way.
The gap made in our money was a sore embarrassment, and, among other consequences, it had this: that I must ride to Edinburgh, and there raise a new loan on very questionable terms to keep the old afloat; and was thus, for close upon three weeks, absent from the house of Durrisdeer. What passed in the interval I had none to tell me, but I found Mrs.
It began between us when we span a coin in the hall of Durrisdeer, now twenty years ago; we have had our ups and downs, but never either of us dreamed of giving in; and as for me, when my glove is cast, life and honour go with it." "A fig for your honour!" I would say. "And by your leave, these warlike similitudes are something too high-sounding for the matter in hand.
At least, upon our mounting the long brae from Durrisdeer, as we walked side by side in the wet, he began first to whistle and then to sing the saddest of our country tunes, which sets folk weeping in a tavern, WANDERING WILLIE. The set of words he used with it I have not heard elsewhere, and could never come by any copy; but some of them which were the most appropriate to our departure linger in my memory.
That was my first word of commendation; and from that day his jealousy of my performance was relaxed; soon it was "Mr. Mackellar" here, and "Mr. Mackellar" there, with the whole family; and for much of my service at Durrisdeer, I have transacted everything at my own time, and to my own fancy, and never a farthing challenged. Even while he was driving me, I had begun to find my heart go out to Mr.
Blessed be God that we escaped with life blessed be God that one stone yet stands upon another in the walls of Durrisdeer! And, oh! Mr. Alexander, if ever you come by this spot, though it was a hundred years hence, and you came with the gayest and the highest in the land, I would step aside and remember a bit prayer." My lord bowed his head gravely.
By an unfortunate chance John Paul and Macconochie had that very morning found the guinea piece which was the root of all the evil sticking in a holly bush; they had been "up the gait," as the servants say at Durrisdeer, to the change-house; and if they had little left of the guinea, they had less of their wits.
And this may have been; I know not, I was otherwise engaged. For at that first disclosure of the dead man's eyes, my Lord Durrisdeer fell to the ground, and when I raised him up, he was a corpse. Day came, and still Secundra could not be persuaded to desist from his unavailing efforts.
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