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In his own opinion, at least, he was eminently successful; for, when Sir Mungo Malagrowther one day, in the presence-chamber, took upon him to grieve bitterly for the bride's lack of pedigree, the monarch cut him short with, "Ye may save your grief for your ain next occasions, Sir Mungo; for, by our royal saul, we will uphauld her father, Davy Ramsay, to be a gentleman of nine descents, whase great gudesire came of the auld martial stock of the House of Dalwolsey, than whom better men never did, and better never will, draw sword for king and country.
'Do you charge any of my people with having taken it? 'I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent, said my gudesire; 'and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof. 'Somewhere the money must be, if there is a word of truth in your story, said Sir John; 'I ask where you think it is and demand a correct answer?
But when a' was ower, and the laird was beginning to settle his affairs, every tenant was called up for his arrears, and my gudesire for the full sum that stood against him in the rental-book.
Sir John Redgauntlet ordered the servants out of the room, and then said to my gudesire, 'Now, Steenie, ye see ye have fair play; and, as I have little doubt ye ken better where to find the siller than ony other body, I beg, in fair terms, and for your own sake, that you will end this fasherie; for, Stephen, ye maun pay or flit.
"In hell, if you will have my thoughts of it," said my gudesire, driven to extremity "in hell! with your father, his jackanape, and his silver whistle."
"Do you charge any of my people with having taken it?" "I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent," said my gudesire; "and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof." "Somewhere the money must be, if there is a word of truth in your story," said Sir John; "I ask where you think it is and demand a correct answer!"
The rental-book, wi' its black cover and brass clasps, was lying beside him; and a book of sculduddry sangs was put betwixt the leaves, to keep it open at the place where it bore evidence against the Goodman of Primrose Knowe, as behind the hand with his mails and duties. Sir Robert gave my gudesire a look, as if he would have withered his heart in his bosom.
However, up got Sir John, and entered at the turret door, where his body stopped the only little light that was in the bit turret. Something flees at him wi' a vengeance, maist dang him back ower bang! gaed the knight's pistol, and Hutcheon, that held the ladder, and my gudesire, that stood beside him, hears a loud skelloch.
'We were best ask Hutcheon, said my gudesire; 'he kens a' the odd corners about as weel as another serving-man that is now gane, and that I wad not like to name.
And he was sic an awsome body, that naebody cared to anger him; for the oaths he swore, and the rage that he used to get into, and the looks that he put on, made men sometimes think him a devil incarnate. Weel, my gudesire was nae manager no that he was a very great misguider but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear.
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