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Come, cheerly, Mr. Fairford you will be taken good care of try to walk. Alan did so; and, refreshed by his halt, declared himself able to walk to the house with the sole assistance of the gardener. 'Why, that's hearty. Thank thee, Dick, for lending him thine arm' and Nanty slipped into his hand the guinea he had promised. 'Farewell, then, Mr.
Fairford answered in the negative, and, looking at the letter, read with surprise, 'CAVE NE LITERAS BELLEROPHONTIS ADFERRES'; a caution which coincided so exactly with the provost's admonition, that he would do well to inspect the letter of which he was bearer, that he was about to spring up and attempt an escape, he knew not wherefore, or from whom.
Darsie was compelled to acquiesce, sufficiently aware that his uncle would permit him no interview with a friend whose influence would certainly be used against his present earnest wishes, and in some measure contented with the assurance of Fairford's personal safety. In this room they found Alan Fairford and the Quaker, apparently in deep conversation with each other.
'I will accept your letter, then, said Fairford, after a minute's consideration, 'and the thanks you expect shall be most liberally paid, if the result answer what you teach me to expect. 'God only commands the issue, said Father Buonaventure. 'Man uses means. You understand that, by accepting this commission, you engage yourself in honour to try the effect of my letter upon Mr.
I am not a man for that I keep the kirk, and I abhor Popery I have stood up for the House of Hanover, and for liberty and property I carried arms, sir, against the Pretender, when three of the Highlandmen's baggage-carts were stopped at Ecclefechan; and I had an especial loss of a hundred pounds' 'Scots, interrupted Fairford. 'You forget you told me all this before.
Ewart, said Fairford, 'you live chiefly with men too deeply interested for their own immediate safety, to think much upon the distress of others? 'And with whom do you yourself consort, I pray? replied Nanty, smartly. 'Why, with plotters, that can make no plot to better purpose than their own hanging; and incendiaries, that are snapping the flint upon wet tinder.
'Why not? said Alan Fairford, for whom the tale began to have some interest. 'Because there was an unchancy beast of a dragoon riding close beside us on the other side; and if I had let him into my confidence as well as Harry, it would not have been long before a pistol-ball slapped through my bonnet.
Fairford was compelled to return home with this intelligence; and on inquiring at James Wilkinson where his son was, received for answer, that 'Maister Alan was in his own room, and very busy. 'We must have our explanation over, said Saunders Fairford to himself.
He endeavoured to fish out from the lad that acted as a guide, something of this man's situation and profession; but the general expressions of 'a very decent man' 'a very honest body' 'weel to pass in the world, and such like, were all that could be extracted from him; and while Fairford was following up the investigation with closer interrogatories, the lad put an end to them by knocking at the door of Mr.
Fairford, as your father may have clients they are flesh and blood like ourselves, these poor Jacobite bodies sons of Adam and Eve, after all; and therefore I hope you understand me? I am a plain-spoken man.
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