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I will await in town to- morrow, near Covent Garden; if any one will pay the redemption-money to my scrivener, with whom the deeds lie, the better for Lord Glenvarloch; if not, I will go forward on the next day, and travel with all dispatch to the north, to take possession." "Take a father's malison with you, unhappy wretch!" said Lord Huntinglen. "And a king's, who is pater patriae," said James.
What mean you by pointing to that money? What villainy have you done for it? It is too large to be come honestly by." "Your lordship knows best," answered the scrivener, in great perturbation. "The gold is your own. It is it is " "Not the redemption-money of the Glenvarloch estate!" said Dalgarno.
In plain terms, Andrew, you may send for the devil, if you will, who is the mightiest lord of my acquaintance, but from hence you stir not till you have answered our proposition, by rejecting or accepting the redemption-money fairly tendered there it lies take it, or leave it, as you will.
Sathanas and Mammon are near akin." The porters, at the same time, ranged their load on the floor. "I I," stammered the surprised scrivener "I cannot guess what you mean, sir." "Only that I have brought you the redemption-money on the part of Lord Glenvarloch, in discharge of a certain mortgage over his family inheritance.
"Let him say nothing, my liege," said Martha; "that will best suit his feelings and mine." "There is redemption-money, at the least, to be repaid," said Lord Glenvarloch; "in that I cannot remain debtor." "We will speak of it hereafter," said Martha; "my debtor you cannot be." And she shut her mouth as if determined to say nothing more on the subject.
Have ye plenary powers to dispose on the redemption-money as to delay of payments, or the like, ay or no?" "Full power, an it like your gracious Majesty," answered Richie Moniplies; "and I am maist willing to subscrive to whatsoever may in ony wise accommodate your Majesty anent the redemption-money, trusting your Majesty's grace will be kind to me in one sma' favour."
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