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Updated: June 22, 2025
"He is right," said Lord Huntinglen; "our young friend is right, in confiding these matters to you and me, Master George Heriot he has not misplaced his confidence."
The king was in the utmost alarm, called upon Heriot and Maxwell for help, and, presence of mind not being his forte, ran to and fro in his cabinet, exclaiming "My ancient and beloved servant who saved our anointed self! vae atque dolor! My Lord of Huntinglen, look up look up, man, and your son may marry the Queen of Sheba if he will."
When the Earl of Huntinglen had presented Nigel to his sovereign, a ceremony which the good peer took upon himself, the king received the young lord very graciously, and observed to his introducer, that he "was fain to see them twa stand side by side; for I trow, my Lord Huntinglen," continued he, "your ancestors, ay, and e'en your lordship's self and this lad's father, have stood front to front at the sword's point, and that is a worse posture."
But he was again silenced by Lord Huntinglen, who declared he would not hear a word on that topic, and proposed instead, that they should take a turn in the pleached alley, or sit upon the stone bench which overlooked the Thames, until his son's arrival should give the signal for dinner.
Have the goodness to prefer me to the knowledge of the high-born nobleman who is honoured and advantaged by your patronage." "That shall be my task," said Lord Huntinglen, with emphasis. "My lord duke, I desire you to know Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, representative of one of the most ancient and powerful baronial houses in Scotland.
I will await in town to- morrow, near Covent Garden; if any one will pay the redemption-money to my scrivener, with whom the deeds lie, the better for Lord Glenvarloch; if not, I will go forward on the next day, and travel with all dispatch to the north, to take possession." "Take a father's malison with you, unhappy wretch!" said Lord Huntinglen. "And a king's, who is pater patriae," said James.
"My son, an it please your Majesty, so far as he is concerned, shall not direct my doings," said the earl, "nor any wild-headed young man of them all." "Why, neither shall they mine," replied the monarch; "by my father's saul, none of them all shall play Rex with me I will do what I will, and what I ought, like a free king." "Your Majesty will then grant me my boon?" said the Lord Huntinglen.
Or is this worthy citizen, as before " "Hold thy base ribald tongue!" said his father, Lord Huntinglen, who had kept in the background during the ceremony, and now stepping suddenly forward, caught the lady by the arm, and confronted her unworthy husband. "The Lady Dalgarno," he continued, "shall remain as a widow in my house.
I fear, in this uncertainty of public credit, that without some such counter security, it will be very difficult to find so large a sum." "Ho la!" said the Earl of Huntinglen, "halt there! a thought strikes me. What if the new creditor should admire the estate as a hunting- field, as much as my Lord Grace of Buckingham seems to do, and should wish to kill a buck there in the summer season?
He was wont to say, ere we left Scotland, that the blood of Huntinglen and of Glenvarloch would not mingle, were they poured into the same basin. Perhaps he has a mind to try the experiment?" "My lord," said James, "we will not be longer trifled with Will you instantly, and sine mora, take this lady to your wife, in our chapel?"
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