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But I might have heard all about him from Dame Suddlechop, for she spoke of my meeting him at Enfield Chase, with some other good fellows, to do a robbery on one that goes northward with a store of treasure." "And you did not agree to this fine project?" said Moniplies. "I cursed her for a hag, and came away about my business," answered Jenkin. "Ay, and what said she to that, man?
Lord Glenvarloch repaired thither to dispel the unpleasant reflections which had been suggested by his parting with his trusty squire, Richie Moniplies, in a manner which was agreeable neither to his pride nor his feelings; and by the corroboration which the hints of his late attendant had received from the anonymous letter mentioned in the end of the last chapter.
Stay, fellow," for Moniplies, muttering somewhat about finishing his breakfast, was beginning to shamble towards the door, "answer me this farther question When you gave your master's petition to his Majesty, gave you nothing with it?" "Ou, what should I give wi' it, ye ken, Master George?" "That is what I desire and insist to know," replied his interrogator.
"The deil be in my feet if I do," said Moniplies, "I am not the lad to leave your lordship in foul weather, when I followed you and fed upon you through the whole summer day, And besides, there may be brave days behind, for a' that has come and gane yet; for
"Geordie," said the king, "my good and trusty servant" Here he busied his fingers much with the points and ribbons of his dress, "Ye see that we have granted, from our own natural sense of right and justice, that which yon long-backed fallow, Moniplies I think they ca' him, proffered to purchase from us with a mighty bribe; whilk we refused, as being a crowned king, who wad neither sell our justice nor our mercy for pecuniar consideration.
A wild woodland prospect led the eye at various points through broad and seemingly interminable alleys, which, meeting at this point as at a common centre, diverged from each other as they receded, and had, therefore, been selected by Lord Dalgarno as the rendezvous for the combat, which, through the medium of Richie Moniplies, he had offered to his injured friend, Lord Glenvarloch.
"Singular," said Nigel, whose brain, like that of most active young spirits, was easily caught by the singular and the romantic; "does she not eat with the family?" "Who! she!" exclaimed Moniplies, as if surprised at the question; "they would need a lang spoon would sup with her, I trow.
Nigel acquiesced in a plan which promised so much amusement; and his new friend and he, attended by Lutin and Moniplies, who greatly resembled, when thus associated, the conjunction of a bear and a monkey, took possession of Lord Dalgarno's wherry, which, with its badged watermen, bearing his lordship's crest on their arms, lay in readiness to receive them.
Are not you Richie Moniplies, with the king's favour?" "Even sae, Master Heriot of the ancient and honourable house of Castle Collop, near to the West Port of Edinburgh," answered Richie. "Why, please your Majesty, he is a poor serving-man," said Heriot. "This money can never be honestly at his disposal." "What for no?" said the king.
At the door of this sanctuary it is necessary to pause, in order to correct the reports with which Richie Moniplies had filled his master's ear, respecting the singular appearance of that lady's attendance at prayers, whom we now own to be by name the Lady Hermione.
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