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Pleydell, 'so far from considering your attendance as an intrusion, Mr. Glossin, I was never so pleased in my life to meet with you; especially as I think we should, at any rate, have had occasion to request the favour of your company in the course of the day.
Godfrey Bertram's creditors, the right of most of whom was, however, defeasible in case Henry Bertram should establish his character of heir of entail. This young gentleman put his affairs into the hands of Mr. Pleydell and Mr.
'Thou art a fine young fellow, I'll be bound for thee, said Pleydell, 'and since you have wanted a father so long, I wish from my heart I could claim the paternity myself. But this affair of young Hazlewood 'Was merely accidental, said Bertram. 'I was travelling in Scotland for pleasure, and, after a week's residence with my friend Mr.
Counsellor Pleydell, such as we have described him, was enthroned as a monarch, in an elbow-chair, placed, on the dining-table, his scratch wig on one side, his head crowned with a bottle-slider, his eye leering with an expression betwixt fun and the effects of wine, while his court around him resounded with such crambo scraps of verse as these . Where is Gerunto now? and what's become of him?
'So Mr. Pleydell is not at home, my good girl? said Mannering. 'Ay, sir, he's at hame, but he's no in the house; he's aye out on Saturday at e'en. 'But, my good girl, I am a stranger, and my business express. Will you tell me where I can find him? 'His honour, said the chairman, 'will be at Clerihugh's about this time.
'Under favour, most learned and honoured sir, said the Dominie, 'I trust HE who hath restored little Harry Bertram to his friends will not leave His own work imperfect. 'I trust so too, Mr. Sampson, said Pleydell; 'but we must use the means; and I am afraid we shall have more difficulty in procuring them than I at first thought.
I don't mean to fish for your defences against them, if you have any, but 'Mr. Pleydell, replied Glossin, 'I am always disposed to act above-board, and I think I can explain the matter at once.
"No, no, not quite all," said Pleydell, winking sagaciously; "there are some interrogatories which I shall delay till to-morrow, for it is time, I believe, to close the sederunt for this night, or rather morning."
Pleydell, said Glossin, with great composure, 'I presume, if you were my counsel, you would not advise me to answer upon the spur of the moment to a charge which the basest of mankind seem ready to establish by perjury. 'My advice, said the Counsellor, 'would be regulated by my opinion of your innocence or guilt.
'Hush, Colonel, said the Lawyer; 'I am sure you would not, any more than I, countenance him if he prove an impostor. And, among friends, who informed you of this, Sir Robert? 'Why, a person, Mr. Pleydell, answered the Baronet, 'who is peculiarly interested in investigating, sifting, and clearing out this business to the bottom; you will excuse my being more particular.
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