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He therefore supposed himself safe from all evidence but such as might arise from Hatteraick's confession; to prevent which he resolved to push a bold face and join his brethren of the bench during his examination. 'I shall be able, he thought, 'to make the rascal sensible his safety lies in keeping his own counsel and mine; and my presence, besides, will be a proof of confidence and innocence.
The fate of Dirk Hatteraick's vessel was certain. Shortly after, they perceived that she grounded, smoked, and finally took fire. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves as the fire reached them; and they saw her at length blow up with a great explosion.
The fate of Dirk Hatteraick's vessel was certain. Shortly after, they perceived that she grounded, smoked, and finally took fire. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves as the fire reached them; and they saw her at length blow up with a great explosion.
"You may retire," said he to his clerk, "and carry the people with you, but wait within call." Then: "You are Dirk Hatteraick, are you not?" "Tousand teyvils! And if you know that, why ask me?" "Captain, bullying won't do. You'll hardly get out of this country without accounting for a little accident at Warroch Point a few years ago." Hatteraick's looks grew black as midnight.
While some conversation passed between the other justices and this young man, Pleydell lifted from among the papers on the table Hatteraick's old pocket-book. A peculiar glance of the smuggler's eye induced the shrewd lawyer to think there was something here of interest.
Now, Hatteraick will take wood, or he'll take bark, or he'll take barley, or he'll take just what's convenient at the time. I'll tell you a gude story about that. The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction, that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter. The tea, which of course belonged to the noble Captain Hatteraick's trade, was pronounced excellent.
The reader may recollect the description of this ruin in the twenty-seventh chapter, as the vault in which young Bertram, under the auspices of Meg Merrilies, witnessed the death of Hatteraick's lieutenant.
While some conversation passed between the other justices and this young man, Pleydell lifted from among the papers on the table Hatteraick's old pocket-book. A peculiar glance of the smuggler's eye induced the shrewd lawyer to think there was something here of interest.
The man looked at the note, then at his foot-rule and measure then verified his former measurement by a second. "They correspond," he said, "within a hair-breadth, to a foot-mark broader and shorter than the former." Hatteraick's genius here deserted him "Der deyvil!" he broke out, "how could there be a foot-mark on the ground, when it was a frost as hard as the heart of a Memel log?"
But, speaking of Frank Kennedy, I daresay he'll be here the day, for he was away round to Wigton to warn a king's ship that's lying in the bay about Dirk Hatteraick's lugger being on the coast again, and he'll be back this day; so we'll have a bottle of claret and drink little Harry's health. 'I wish, replied the lady, 'Frank Kennedy would let Dirk Hatteraick alane.
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