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Lowestoffe, having thus seen his friend fairly installed in his new apartment, and having obtained for him a note of the rate at which he could be accommodated with victuals from a neighbouring cook's shop, now took his leave, offering, at the same time, to send the whole, or any part of Lord Glenvarloch's baggage, from his former place of residence to his new lodging.
"I witnessed the redemption of the mortgage," said Lowestoffe; "but I little dreamt by whom it had been redeemed." "No need ye should," said Richie; "there would have been small wisdom in crying roast-meat." "Peace," said his bride, "once more. This paper," she continued, delivering another to Lord Glenvarloch, "is also your property take it, but spare me the question how it came into my custody."
"I must have time, gentlemen," said Andrew, "to examine the gold by tale and weight." "Do so at your leisure, Master Scrivener," replied Lowestoffe again. "We have already seen the contents of each sack told and weighed, and we have put our seals on them. There they stand in a row, twenty in number, each containing three hundred yellow-hammers we are witnesses to the lawful tender."
But your lordship will pardon me you are the last of our acquaintance to whom I would have proposed such a voyage of discovery." "I am obliged to you, Master Lowestoffe, for the good opinion you have expressed in the observation," said Lord Glenvarloch; "but my present circumstances may render even a residence of a day or two in the sanctuary a matter of necessity."
Nigel mentioned so few articles, that the Templar could not help observing, that his lordship, it would seem, did not intend to enjoy his new privileges long. "They are too little suited to my habits and taste, that I should do so," replied Lord Glenvarloch. "You may change your opinion to-morrow," said Lowestoffe; "and so I wish you a good even. To-morrow I will visit you betimes."
As Master Lowestoffe ran over this jargon of the gaming-table, Lord Glenvarloch was both ashamed and mortified, and felt a severe pang of aristocratic pride, when he concluded in the sweeping clause that the dice, like the grave, levelled those distinguishing points of society, to which Nigel's early prejudices clung perhaps but too fondly.
"The family seems to increase among your countrymen, Sir Mungo," said Master Lowestoffe, whom Lord Glenvarloch had invited to be present, "since his Majesty's happy accession brought so many of you here." "Right, sir right," said Sir Mungo, nodding and looking at George Heriot; "there have some of ourselves been the better of that great blessing to the English nation."
When this commotion was appeased, and the strangers courteously accommodated with flagons, after the fashion of the others present, the Duke drank prosperity to the Temple in the most gracious manner, together with a cup of welcome to Master Reginald Lowestoffe; and, this courtesy having been thankfully accepted, the party honoured prayed permission to call for a gallon of Rhenish, over which he proposed to open his business.
"There was a convention that she should wed me when I avenged her father's death so I slew, and took possession." "It is the daughter of Old Trapbois, who has been missed so long," said Lowestoffe. "Where the devil could you mew her up so closely, friend Richie?" "Master Richard, if it be your will," answered Richie; "or Master Richard Moniplies, if you like it better.
You will find that a weighty dependence upon your hands, especially if your party be of rank and have favour." "I will be plain with you, Master Lowestoffe," said Nigel, "since I have gone thus far. The person I struck was Lord Dalgarno, whom you have seen at Beaujeu's." "A follower and favourite of the Duke of Buckingham!
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