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Well, well, we will not quarrel about the consideration, as old Trapbois would call it do you win and wear the dame; it will be no hard matter with your face and figure, and I will take care that no one interrupts you. I will have an edict from the Senate as soon as they meet for their meridiem." So saying, Duke Hildebrod took his leave.

"You hear what a character the impudent knave gives me; but, so it serves your lordship's turn, I care not. And, now, let me ask your lordship what name you will assume, for we are near the ducal palace of Duke Hildebrod." "I will be called Grahame," said Nigel; "it was my mother's name." "Grime," repeated the Templar, "will suit Alsatia well enough both a grim and grimy place of refuge."

"You would have him escape," resumed she, fixing her eyes on him sternly. "By cock and pie," replied Hildebrod, "did it depend on me, the murdering cut-throat should hang as high as ever Haman did but let me take my time. He has friends among us, that you wot well; and all that should assist me are as drunk as fiddlers."

"To go no further, sir," interrupted Nigel, "suppose all this true and what follows?" "What follows?" returned Duke Hildebrod.

'I hen it fell under the dominion of a broken attorney, who was dethroned by a reformado captain, who, proving tyrannical, was deposed by a hedgeparson, who was succeeded, upon resignation of his power, by Duke Jacob Hildebrod, of that name the first, whom Heaven long preserve."

When Duke Hildebrod had withdrawn, Nigel's first impulse was an irresistible feeling to laugh at the sage adviser, who would have thus connected him with age, ugliness, and ill-temper; but his next thought was pity for the unfortunate father and daughter, who, being the only persons possessed of wealth in this unhappy district, seemed like a wreck on the sea-shore of a barbarous country, only secured from plunder for the moment by the jealousy of the tribes among whom it had been cast.

"But has your wisdom considered, sir," replied Glenvarloch, "how this wedlock can serve me in my present emergence?" "As for that, my lord," said Duke Hildebrod, "if, with forty or fifty thousand pounds in your pouch, you cannot save yourself, you will deserve to lose your head for your folly, and your hand for being close-fisted."

For an instant he thought of following her; but upon recollection that the distance was but short betwixt the tavern of Hildebrod and the house of Trapbois, he concluded that she knew it better than he incurred little danger in passing it, and that he would do well in the meanwhile to remain on the watch as she recommended.

He was to have hunted this week, but that purpose is broken, they say; and the Prince, and the Duke, and all of them at Greenwich, are as merry as minnows." "Well," replied Nigel, "I will be ready to go at five; do thou come hither to carry my baggage." "Ay, ay, master," replied the fellow, and left the house mixing himself with the disorderly attendants of Duke Hildebrod, who were now retiring.

A young man, dressed in a green plush jerkin, with a badge on the sleeve, and having the appearance of a waterman, approached and took Nigel aside, while Duke Hildebrod went from place to place to exercise his authority, and to see the windows fastened, and the doors of the apartment locked up. The news communicated by Lowestoffe's messenger were not the most pleasant.

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