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Come, damsel, now I will escort you back to the Lady Mansel, and pray her, of her kindness, that when she is again trusted with a goose, she will not give it to the fox to keep. The warders will let us pass to my lady's lodgings, I trust." "Stay but one moment," said Lord Glenvarloch.
This Lord Glenvarloch well knew; and odious as the place of refuge was, it seemed the only one where, for a space at least, he might be concealed and secure from the immediate grasp of the law, until he should have leisure to provide better for his safety, or to get this unpleasant matter in some shape accommodated.
"An honourable and a most respectful one," said Lord Glenvarloch; "whatever you are whatever motive may have brought you into this ambiguous situation, I am sensible every look, word, and action of yours, makes me sensible, that you are no proper subject of importunity, far less of ill usage.
It might have seemed natural that the visit of John Christie should have entirely diverted Nigel's attention from his slumbering companion, and, for a time, such was the immediate effect of the chain of new ideas which the incident introduced; yet, soon after the injured man had departed, Lord Glenvarloch began to think it extraordinary that the boy should have slept so soundly, while they talked loudly in his vicinity.
"Whomsoever goeth before me, my lord," answered Moniplies. "No sauciness, you knave I desire to know if you still serve Nigel Olifaunt?" said Dalgarno. "I am friend to the noble Lord Glenvarloch," answered Moniplies, with dignity.
"But go on, since it is the last time I am to be tormented with your impertinence, go on, and make the most of your time." "In troth," said Richie, "and so will I even do. And as Heaven has bestowed on me a tongue to speak and to advise " "Which talent you can by no means be accused of suffering to remain idle," said Lord Glenvarloch, interrupting him.
And even the notice of this original, singular and unamiable as he was, was not entirely indifferent to Lord Glenvarloch, since the absolute and somewhat constrained silence of his good friend Heriot, which left him at liberty to retire painfully to his own agitating reflections, was now relieved; while, on the other hand, he could not help feeling interest in the sharp and sarcastic information poured upon him by an observant, though discontented courtier, to whom a patient auditor, and he a man of title and rank, was as much a prize, as his acute and communicative disposition rendered him an entertaining companion to Nigel Olifaunt.
Desirous to bring this painful visit to a conclusion, Lord Glenvarloch opened the casket, and looked through the papers which it contained, first hastily, and then more slowly and accurately; but it was all in vain. The Sovereign's signed warrant had disappeared. "I thought and expected nothing better," said George Heriot, bitterly. "The beginning of evil is the letting out of water.
Although Lord Glenvarloch necessarily expected to be occasionally annoyed by the self-conceit and dogmatism of Richie Moniplies's character, yet he could not but feel the greatest pleasure from the firm and devoted attachment which this faithful follower had displayed in the present instance, and indeed promised himself an alleviation of the ennui of his imprisonment, in having the advantage of his services.
She could only plead in answer the influence which her immediately stirring in the matter was likely to have on the affair of her kinsman Lord Glenvarloch, for she was ashamed to acknowledge how much she had been gained on by the eager importunity of her youthful companion.
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