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Surely it is in vain that a net is spread in the sight of any bird." "Eh! what, good dame?" said the soldier. "Here's a whig miracle, egad! the old wife has got both her ears and tongue, and we are like to be driven deaf in our turn. Go to, hold your peace, and remember whom you talk to, you old idiot." "Whae do I talk to! Eh, sirs, ower weel may the sorrowing land ken what ye are.
"What the deuce "began Sir Richard. "My clothes," said I, looking vainly about; "my clothes pray, Sir Richard, where are they?" "Burnt, Peter." "Burnt?" "Every blood-stained rag!" he nodded; "her orders." "But what am I to do?" Sir Richard laughed, and, crossing to the press, opened the door. "Here are all the things you left behind you when you set out to dig, and egad! make your fortune.
"There be not many of us left," said Sir Christopher, ruefully. "Thy poor old Dad is under sod, and others with him. Two necks were broke in hunting, the others died of years or drink." "But one we know naught of, egad!" said my Lord Eldershawe, "and he was my kinsman." "Lord, yes," cried out the other; "Jack Oxon! Jack, who came among us all curls and essences and brocades and lace.
Egad, Ramsay, I am a rough man, but it seemed prodigious strange to see a king giving audience in the apartments of the French woman, and great men leering for a smile from that huzzy! The king lolls on a Persian couch with a litter of spaniel puppies on one side and the French woman on the other.
"Egad! and you'll soon get a receipt for holding it up. Why the mischief can't you have spunk?" "Spunk; how the deuce could you expect spunk from any man in my condition? It is difficult to understand you, Mr. Folliard; you told me a minute ago to repent, and now you tell me to have spunk; pray what do you mean by that?" "Why, confound it, I mean that you should repent with spunk.
"You will like to know that the King when he was quit of Marlborough egad, the old villain hath been a gentleman in this business made straight for me and was instant that I should concern myself for you. I held it my first duty to get His Majesty out of the country. Between ourselves, I was never in love with this plan of palace trickery and Madame Anne.
The fragments of Gothic defences which it exhibited were upon such a scale of strength, as induced Bothwell to exclaim, "It's well this place is in honest and loyal hands. Egad, if the enemy had it, a dozen of old whigamore wives with their distaffs might keep it against a troop of dragoons, at least if they had half the spunk of the old girl we left at Milnwood.
Egad I had the laugh though, when we got home at night!" "How so," asked Frank, "in what way had you the laugh?"
"By my soul, but I'd have you know it's a piece of distinction to be waited upon by a Benshee. It's a proof that one has pure blood in one's veins. But, egad, now we're talking of ghosts, there never was a house or a night better fitted than the present for a ghost adventure. Faith, Sir John, haven't you such a thing as a haunted chamber to put a guest in?"
Perhaps I am not so very far off my road after all; they must have come from a not very distant home, for the horses are not even wet this warm day. Egad, that mare looks as if she had plenty of speed in her; 't would not be a bad idea to throw my leg over her back and be off, and so distance those who even now may be pursuing me."
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