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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I will fetch it, my lord," he said, and disappeared in the milk-cellar, from which a steep stone-stair led down to the ancient dungeon. "The maister's gane wantin' a licht," muttered Grizzie; "I houp he winna see onything." It was an enigmatical utterance, and angered Lord Mergwain. "What the deuce should he see, when he has got to feel his way with his hands?" he snarled.
There were however some signs of the windows there having been enlarged if not increased at a later period. In the block that stood angle-wise to the rest, was the kitchen, the door of which opened immediately on the court; and behind the kitchen, in that part which had no windows to the valley, was the milk-cellar, as they called the dairy, and places for household storage.
The old man, with a look in which it would be hard to say whether shrewdness or credulity predominated, at once hastened to the milk-cellar and returned with a glass of milk; the fellow swallowed the dose with an eager reluctance quite comical to behold, but which excited no movement in the muscles of the old gentleman's face. On a raw, wet winter's day, a loafer applied for a pair of shoes.
"There's some things, my lord,'at can better affoord to come oot i' the dark nor the licht," replied Grizzle. His lordship said nothing in rejoinder, but kept looking every now and then towards the door of the milk-cellar whether solely in anxiety for the appearance of the magnum, may be doubtful.
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