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Others were turned away with similar brusqueness, until the Deacon was in despair; but the though of Si on a bed of pain nerved him, and he kept his place in the line that was pushing toward the Provost's desk. Suddenly the Provost looked over those in front of him, and fixing his eye on the Deacon, called out: "Well, my friend, come up here. What can I do for you?"
Doyle, but neither was hurt. Mr. Hutchinson had a great dislike to a Mr. Shrewbridge, one of the junior fellows, who had shown opposition to him. Mr. Shrewbridge died, and the under graduates attributed his death to the provost's having refused him permission to go away for change of air. A thoroughly Hiber-man émeute was the consequence.
The provost's men are beating the country for the blackguard. When they find him it's a firing party he'll have to face." Tremayne turned slowly to the window and looked down the fair prospect of the hillside over a forest of cork oaks alive with fresh green shoots to the silver sheen of the river a mile away.
She could prove by fifty witnesses, and fifty to that, that her daughter had never seen Jock Porteous, alive or dead, since he had gien her a laundering wi' his cane, the neger that he was! for driving a dead cat at the provost's wig on the Elector of Hanover's birthday."
He required, meanwhile, a score of hostages for payment, and among them the Lord Provost's own son. "The Lord Provost ran about like a man demented; since, to begin with, audacious as the terms were, the plague had spared him scarcely a hundred men capable of resistance. Moreover, he had no son, but an only daughter, and she was lying sick almost to death with the distemper.
"Well, go to," said Bailie Craigdallie, "the less I lie; and if these are not to the fore, it is the provost's fault, and not the town's: they could neither be eat nor drunk in the shape in which he got them." "So say I," cried our friend Proudfute, from the top of his mare. "We roystering blades never bear so base a mind as to count for wine and walnuts with a friend like Sir Patrick Charteris.
'Because of a Bedouin highwayman, hight Ajlan, answered his father, 'who harbours there. Quoth Alaeddin, 'Fortune is with God; if any part in it be mine, no harm will befall me. Then they rode to the cattle market, where a muleteer alighted from his mule and kissing the Provost's hand, said to him, 'O my lord, by Allah, it is long since thou hast employed me to carry merchandise for thee! 'Every time hath its fortune and its men, answered Shemseddin; 'and may God have mercy on him who said: An old man went walking the ways of the world, So bowed and so bent that his beard swept his knee.
But he was admiring, and grateful, and wept when he went off to the boat with the provost's guard, destined for a Northern prison. Virginia wept too. She nor her father never tired of hearing his rough tales of Price's rough army. His departure was about the time when suspicions were growing set.
Each good family in the neighbourhood had its own pew, and Elrigmore's, as it is to this day, lay well in the rear among the shadows of the loft, while the Provost's was a little to the left and at right angles, so that its occupants and ours were in a manner face to face. Gordon would be into many deeps of doctrine no doubt while I was in the deeper depths of speculation upon my lady's mind.
"Son of the Mist!" ejaculated Dalgetty. "Son of utter darkness, say I. But, Ranald, since that is your name, how came you in possession of the provost's court of guard? what the devil brought you here, that is to say?" "My misfortunes and my crimes," answered Ranald. "Know ye the Knight of Ardenvohr?" "I do know that honourable person," replied Dalgetty.
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