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Oldbuck, and inuendos, not so much marked, but not less cutting, from his sister. The dinner was such as suited a professed antiquary, comprehending many savoury specimens of Scottish viands, now disused at the tables of those who affect elegance. There was the relishing Solan goose, whose smell is so powerful that he is never cooked within doors.
Grizel Oldbuck was partly taken from an extraordinary story which happened about seventy years since, in the South of Scotland, so peculiar in its circumstances that it merits being mentioned in this place. Mr. Mr.
"I could have sworn it," said Oldbuck laughing, but obviously much relieved "I could have sworn it; the lazy monkey did not care if we were all drowned together. Why did you say she went out?"
But there's nae law, I trow, that makes it a sin to ken where ither folles siller is, if we didna pit hand til't oursell?" Oldbuck walked once or twice up and down the room in profound thought, endeavouring to find some plausible reason for transactions of a nature so mysterious but his ingenuity was totally at fault. He then placed himself before the prisoner.
Oldbuck did not attempt an answer to this burst of the grief which lay ever nearest to the heart of his guest, but, pressing Lord Glenallan's hand with one of his own, and drawing the other across his shaggy eyelashes, as if to brush away a mist that intercepted his sight, he left the Earl at liberty to arrange himself previous to dinner.
Oldbuck, I saw, with my own eyes, these coins dug out of the chancel of St. Ruth at midnight. And as to Dousterswivel, although the discovery be owing to his science, yet, to tell the truth, I do not think he would have had firmness of mind to have gone through with it if I had not been beside him."
"Well," replied Oldbuck; "but you must tell me the when the where-the how." "The when," answered Sir Arthur, "was at midnight the last full moon the where, as I have told you, in the ruins of St. Ruth's priory the how, was by a nocturnal experiment of Dousterswivel, accompanied only by myself." "Indeed!" said Oldbuck; "and what means of discovery did you employ?"
Now Oldbuck, a shrewd and suspicious man, and no respecter of divine hereditary right, was apt to cavil at this sacred list, and to affirm, that the procession of the posterity of Fergus through the pages of Scottish history, was as vain and unsubstantial as the gleamy pageant of the descendants of Banquo through the cavern of Hecate.
There was something of embarrassment as well as of grave surprise in her look when Oldbuck presented him and, perhaps, upon second thoughts, the one was assumed to cover the other. He would not relinquish a pursuit which had already cost him such pains.
"Aha!" replied Oldbuck, knowingly, "I begin to understand your application of my ancestor's motto. You are a candidate for public favour, though not in the way I first suspected, you are ambitious to shine as a literary character, and you hope to merit favour by labour and perseverance?"
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