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Updated: June 12, 2025
I grant, indeed, that such a prisoner may for security be coerced in carcere, that is, in a public prison. The growling voice of Balmawhapple was heard as taking leave in displeasure, but the word 'land-louper' alone was distinctly audible. He had disappeared before Waverley reached the house in order to greet the worthy Baron of Bradwardine.
"Troth," said the beggar, "there was time for him to be cowed; for ye wad hae thought the very spirit of Hell-in-Harness had taken possession o' the body o' Sir Arthur. But what will come o' the land-louper?"
I grant, indeed, that such a prisoner may for security be coerced in carcere, that is, in a public prison. The growling voice of Balmawhapple was heard as taking leave in displeasure, but the word 'land-louper' alone was distinctly audible. He had disappeared before Waverley reached the house in order to greet the worthy Baron of Bradwardine.
So they went thence, and when they had gone but a little way, there met them a man, big-headed, tall, and gaunt, and ill clad; he greeted them, and either asked other for their names; they said who they were, but he called himself Thorbiorn: he was a land-louper, a man too lazy to work, and a great swaggerer, and much game and fooling was made with him by some folk: he thrust himself into their company, and told them much from the upper country about the folk there.
But what's to be done?" "I suppose," said Lovel, "his faith in this fellow is entirely restored by this deception, which, unquestionably, he had arranged beforehand." "What! the siller? Ay, ay trust him for that they that hide ken best where to find. He wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and then escape to his ain country, the land-louper.
But what's to be done?" "I suppose," said Lovel, "his faith in this fellow is entirely restored by this deception, which, unquestionably, he had arranged beforehand." "What! the siller? Ay, ay trust him for that they that hide ken best where to find. He wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and then escape to his ain country, the land-louper.
Only that, not liking you should sleep in the room alone with this German land-louper, I have caused your servants' beds to be made here in the gallery. By G d, my lord, these are times when men go to bed with a throat hale and sound as ever swallowed brandy, and before next morning it may be gaping like an oyster-shell."
But you are such a land-louper, you ought to blazon two hairy worms saltier-wise." "I don't understand." "Why, your name, interpreted to half an ear, is just PILGRIM PILGRIM!" "I wonder if my father meant it!" "That I cannot even guess at, not having the pleasure of knowing your father. But it does look like a paternal joke!"
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