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Glossin bowed low to this declaration ex cathedra, but observed, that in the case of the very worst, and of such unnatural doctrines being actually held as he had already hinted, 'the law had another hold on Mr. Vanbeest Brown. 'Vanbeest Brown! is that the fellow's name?
And besides, sir, you, Vanbeest Brown, who call yourself a captain in his Majesty's service, are no better or worse than a rascally mate of a smuggler! 'Really, sir, said Bertram, 'you are an old gentleman, and acting under some strange delusion, otherwise I should be very angry with you. 'Old gentleman, sir! strange delusion, sir! said Sir Robert, colouring with indignation.
I shall send you off to Edinburgh in a post-chaise and four this very day. 'Poz donner! you would not do that? said Hatteraick, in a lower and more humbled tone; 'why, you had the matter of half a cargo in bills on Vanbeest and Vanbruggen. 'It is so long since, Captain Hatteraick, answered Glossin, superciliously, 'that I really forget how I was recompensed for my trouble.
'Well, sir, then you will stand committed, sir, said Sir Robert, 'and be sent to prison, sir, that's all, sir. Have the goodness to look at these papers; are you the Vanbeest Brown who is there mentioned?
Glossin looked over his shoulder to see how near his party had approached; they were coming fast on. 'Vanbeest Brown? if I mistake not. 'And what of that, sir? said Bertram, with increasing astonishment and displeasure.
Not that I am anxious about his getting the estate of Ellangowan, though such a subject is held in absolute indifference nowhere except in a novel; but certainly Henry Bertram, heir of Ellangowan, whether possessed of the property of his ancestors or not, is a very different person from Vanbeest Brown, the son of nobody at all. His fathers, Mr.
I shall send you off to Edinburgh in a post-chaise and four this very day. 'Poz donner! you would not do that? said Hatteraick, in a lower and more humbled tone; 'why, you had the matter of half a cargo in bills on Vanbeest and Vanbruggen. 'It is so long since, Captain Hatteraick, answered Glossin, superciliously, 'that I really forget how I was recompensed for my trouble.
Besides, I must own I think that by this time the gentleman might have given me some intimation what he was doing. Our intercourse may be an imprudent one, but it is not very complimentary to me that Mr. Vanbeest Brown should be the first to discover that such is the case, and to break off in consequence.
'Did you not say that the younker, as you call him, goes by the name of Brown? 'Of Brown? yaw; Vanbeest Brown. Old Vanbeest Brown, of our Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, gave him his own name, he did. 'Then, said Glossin, rubbing his hands, 'it is he, by Heaven, who has committed this crime! 'And what have we to do with that? demanded Hatteraick.
Tausend deyvils, man I do ye think that he could rise out of the earth to shoot another man?" A light here began to break upon Glossin's confusion of ideas. "Did you not say that the younker, as you call him, goes by the name of Brown "Of Brown? yaw-Vanbeest Brown; old Vanbeest Brown, of our Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, gave him his own name he did."
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