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Updated: June 29, 2025
When the day of Rashleigh's departure arrived, his father bade him farewell with indifference; his brothers with the ill-concealed glee of school-boys who see their task-master depart for a season, and feel a joy which they dare not express; and I myself with cold politeness.
"Oh, if you begin to investigate Rashleigh's motives, my finger touches my chin once more. I can only be frank where my own are inquired into. But to resume he has resigned the library in my favour, and never enters without leave had and obtained; and so I have taken the liberty to make it the place of deposit for some of my own goods and chattels, as you may see by looking round you."
I left the library, but not to join the hunters. I felt that a solitary walk was necessary to compose my spirits before I again trusted myself in Rashleigh's company, whose depth of calculating villany had been so strikingly exposed to me.
Rashleigh's story at the dinner-party, the other day that incredible tale of his abduction and the mysterious marriage of the two masks?" "I recollect yes." "He spoke of the bride, you remember described her as small and slender, with a profusion of fair, curling hair." "Yes yes yes!" "Guy," fixing her powerful black eyes on his face, "do you need to be told who that masked bride was?"
"I should almost rejoice at what has happened," said I, "could I hope that Rashleigh's treachery might prove the means of preventing the explosion of the rash and desperate intrigues in which I have long suspected him to be a prime agen." "Trow ye na that," said Rob Roy; "traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause.
But some solemn sanction was necessary for transforming Rashleigh's destination from starving as a Catholic priest to thriving as a wealthy banker; and it was not without some reluctance that the acquiescence of the assembly was obtained to such an act of degradation." "I can conceive the scruples but how were they got over?"
Sir Frederick Vernon, or, as he was called among the Jacobites, his Excellency Viscount Beauchamp, had, with his daughter, some difficulty in escaping the consequences of Rashleigh's information. Here Mr.
Swords were drawn, and we exchanged one or two passes, when the other brothers separated us by main force; and I shall never forget the diabolical sneer which writhed Rashleigh's wayward features, as I was forced from the apartment by the main strength of two of these youthful Titans.
But the sport that came after and Rashleigh's shift o' turning the suspicion aff himself upon you, that he had nae grit favour to frae the beginning and then Miss Die, she maun hae us sweep up a' our spiders' webs again, and set you out o' the Justice's claws and then the frightened craven Morris, that was scared out o' his seven senses by seeing the real man when he was charging the innocent stranger and the gowk of a clerk and the drunken carle of a justice Ohon! ohon! mony a laugh that job's gien me and now, a' that I can do for the puir devil is to get some messes said for his soul."
"True," I observed; "yet what service am I likely to render him by leaving Glasgow, which, it is probable, will be the principal scene of Rashleigh's machinations, and committing myself to the doubtful faith of a man of whom I know little but that he fears justice, and has doubtless good reasons for doing so; and that, for some secret, and probably dangerous purpose, he is in close league and alliance with the very person who is like to be the author of our ruin?"
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