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But dat won't do, nudder, as dat vilt make me petter dan you; for you are one of de greatest of dem all, shentlemans." "Oh! as for me, let me alone. I scorn being on their level. I go for 'Down with the rent! and so'll you, too, afore you've been a week in our part of the country." "Vat isht de rent dat you vants to git down?"
"Oh, my son, my brave and noble son, you are saved! God is kinder to me than I deserve!" he cried. "One moment, Brudenell! Oh, Ishmael, thank Heaven, you are safe!" fervently exclaimed another voice that of Judge Merlin, who now came forward and warmly shook his hand. "Ant dere ish von more drue shentlemans in te vorlt!" sobbed the German Jew, seizing and pressing one of Ishmael's hands.
"Shentlemans to speak wi' her," replied Dougal, resuming the true dogged sullen tone of a turnkey, in exchange for the shrill clang of Highland congratulation with which he had welcomed my mysterious guide; and, turning on his heel, he left the apartment.
"You tam lowland scoon'rel!" cries he, and hit me a buffet on the jaw with his closed fist. I paid him as good or better on the return; whereupon he stepped a little back and took off his hat to me decorously. "Enough plows I think," says he. "I will be the offended shentleman, for who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the king's officer he cannae speak Cot's English?
"Gaptain," he returned, "there are oggasions when in condrast to a liar to a golossal liar to one who has made a peeziness of systematic deception a murderer is a shentlemans!" "Oh, you villain baker!" cried Sasa, joining in. "You make tongafiti. You never want marry the girl at all. All the time you say something different.
As for Fraser, he looked before him on the table. "He is here to bear a little testimony in my favour, my lord, which I think it very needful you should hear," said I, and turned to Duncansby. "I have only to say this," said the lieutenant, "that I stood up this day with Palfour in the Hunter's Pog, which I am now fery sorry for, and he behaved himself as pretty as a shentlemans could ask it.
"To be sure, to be sure," Dougal replied, with accents of profound submission; "her pleasure suld be done tat's but reason; but an it were tat is, an it could be thought the same to her to coup the ill-faured loon of ta red-coat Captain, and hims corporal Cramp, and twa three o' the red-coats, into the loch, herself wad do't wi' muckle mair great satisfaction than to hurt ta honest civil shentlemans as were friends to the Gregarach, and came up on the Chiefs assurance, and not to do no treason, as herself could testify."
I had already remarked that Andie was continually on the point of quarrelling with our three MacGregors, and now, sure enough, it was to come. "Thir will be no words to use to shentlemans," says Neil. "Shentlemans!" cries Andie. "Shentlemans, ye hielant stot! If God would give ye the grace to see yoursel' the way that ithers see ye, ye would throw your denner up."
Janet did indeed seriously incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some Highland maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele's reception of a "shentlemans in distress," and of her own mistress's house too. I omitted for certain reasons, or greatly abridged, what related to her-self.
Ant I zaid dish is te name of von drue shentlemans; ant I'll gall to see him; and here I am," replied the Jew, cordially returning Ishmael's shake of the hand. "Thank you, Isaacs, for your good opinion of me. Sit down.
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