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He struck his mule with his riding wand accordingly; but, instead of mending her pace, the animal suddenly started from the path, and the rider's utmost efforts could not force her forward. "Art thou, too, infected with the spirit of the times?" said the Sub-Prior; "thou wert wont to be ready and serviceable, and art now as restive as any wild jack-man or stubborn heretic of them all."
"For God's sake" cried poor Dame Glendinning, terrified at the idea of a quarrel between them, "O Christie! -it is the Sub-Prior O reverend sir, it is Christie of the Clinthill, the laird's chief jack-man; ye know that little havings can be expected from the like o' them."
"So, our lady is dead, Dame Glendinning?" said the jack-man; "my master has sent you even now a fat bullock for her mart it may serve for her funeral. Let me have a peck of corn for my horse, and beef and beer for myself, for I must go on to the Monastery though I think this monk hero might do mine errand." "Thine errand, rude man!" said the Sub-Prior, knitting his brows
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