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Middleburgh had just taken his seat, and was debating in an animated manner, with one of his colleagues, the doubtful chances of a game at golf which they had played the day before, when a letter was delivered to him, addressed "For Bailie Middleburgh; These: to be forwarded with speed." It contained these words:
Middleburgh; "you have only one daughter here at home with you but this unfortunate girl who is a prisoner she is, I think, your youngest daughter?" The Presbyterian sternly raised his eyes. "After the world, and according to the flesh, she is my daughter; but when she became a child of Belial, and a company-keeper, and a trader in guilt and iniquity, she ceased to be a bairn of mine." "Alas, Mr.
Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the Middleburgh house of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks; he gave him for a footboy. Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him. 'Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then?
I tell you it shall be a joint business. 'Why, will ye give me half the kitt? 'What, half the estate? D'ye mean we should set up house together at Ellangowan, and take the barony ridge about? 'Sturmwetter, no! but you might give me half the value half the gelt. Live with you? nein. I would have a lusthaus of mine own on the Middleburgh dyke, and a blumengarten like a burgomaster's.
'Why, how should I know? The house there was done up; and that gave us a shake at Middleburgh, I think; so they sent me again to see what could be done among my old acquaintances here, for we held old stories were done away and forgotten.
ambassadors were reminded of the claim of indemnification for the losses sustained by the English in the East Indies, of a free trade from Middleburgh to Antwerp, and of the tenth herring which was due from the Dutch fishermen for the permission to exercise their trade in the British seas.
The day was postponed to March 7; but Charles, at their request, proceeded in disguise to Middleburgh in Zeeland, that he might be in readiness to cross over to England; and Lord Wilmot, lately created earl of Rochester, with Sir Joseph Wagstaff, arrived to take the command of the insurgents, Whitelock, 608-620. the first in the northern, the second in the western counties.
'I have been so distressed by difficulty of breathing, that I lost, as was computed, six-and-thirty ounces of blood in a few days . I am better, but not well. 'I wish you would be vigilant and get me Graham's Telemachus that was printed at Glasgow, a very little book; and Johnstoni Poemata , another little book, printed at Middleburgh. 'Mrs.
So saying, Mr. Middleburgh turned to leave him. "Bide awee bide awee, Mr. Middleburgh," said Deans, in great perplexity and distress of mind; but the Bailie, who was probably sensible that protracted discussion might diminish the effect of his best and most forcible argument, took a hasty leave, and declined entering farther into the controversy.
And the lady confessed in my hearing that a drow of anxiety had come ower her for her son that she had left at hame weak of a decay* And what wad he hae said of me if I had ceased to think of the gude cause for a castaway a It kills me to think of what she is!" * See Life of Peden, p. 14. "But the life of your child, goodman think of that if her life could be saved," said Middleburgh.
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