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'Nay, then, said Ewart, 'I can try it another way, as well as the hypocritical old rascal Turnpenny himself could do. 'Have I touched you now, sir? 'You are as far off as ever, replied Fairford. 'What the devil! and you a repeating frigate between Summertrees and the laird! Tell that to the marines the sailors won't believe it.
Fairweather, what I do is as the d d villain Turnpenny says all in the way of business. He had been speaking with difficulty for the last five minutes, and now at length dropped on the deck, fairly silenced by the quantity of spirits which he had swallowed, but without having showed any glimpse of the gaiety, or even of the extravagance, of intoxication.
You must, then, go to old Tom Trumbull's at Annan, Tam Turnpenny, as they call him, and he is sure either to know where Redgauntlet is himself, or to find some one who can give a shrewd guess.
'And a friend to King George, and the Hanover line of succession, said Nixon, still walking and speaking very slow. 'You may swear I am, excepting in the way of business, as Turnpenny says. I like King George, but I can't afford to pay duties. 'You are outlawed, I believe, said Nixon. 'Am I? faith, I believe I am, said Ewart. 'I wish I were INLAWED again with all my heart.
Gad, the only trouble I shall have is to get you out of the house; for Doll is a rare wench, and my dame a funny old one, and Father Crackenthorp the rarest companion! He'll drink you a bottle of rum or brandy without starting, but never wet his lips with the nasty Scottish stuff that the canting old scoundrel Turnpenny has brought into fashion.
'None that is fit for my travelling, answered the landlord, laying his hand on his portly stomach. 'I am not Tom Turnpenny, to creep like a lizard through keyholes.
Fairford despised a falsehood as much as any man, unless, perhaps, as Tom Turnpenny might have said, 'in the way of business. He answered readily and firmly, 'The seal was whole when the letter was delivered to me by Mr. Maxwell of Summertrees.
'Why, brother Nixon, thou art angry this morning, he replied; 'hast risen from thy wrong side, I think. You know, as well as I, that most of this mob is of the squire's own making gentlemen that come with their servants, and so forth, to meet him in the way of business, as old Tom Turnpenny says the very last that came was sent down with Dick Gardener from Fairladies.
But you must attend that old Turnpenny will answer no question on such a subject without you give him the passport, which at present you must do, by asking him the age of the moon; if he answers, "Not light enough to land a cargo," you are to answer, "Then plague on Aberdeen Almanacks," and upon that he will hold free intercourse with you.
'Why, Master Trumbull, replied Job, 'you know that when we are chased, it's no time to shorten sail, and so the boys do ride whip and spur. He stopped in his speech, observing the old man had vanished through the door by which he had entered 'That's always the way with old Turnpenny, he said to Fairford; 'he cares for nothing of the trade but the profit now, d me, if I don't think the fun of it is better worth while.
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