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'Ringan Raefoot, replied Geordie Sir Patrick began to put the oath of obedience to him, but the boy cried out 'I'll ne'er swear to any save my lawful lord, the Yerl of Angus, and my lord the Master. 'Hist, Ringan, interposed Geordie. 'Sir, I will answer for his faith to me, and so long as he is leal to me he will be the same to thee; but I doubt whether it be expedient to compel him.
An' syne he telled them hoo, laith to be fashous, he had gi'en orders till 's menyie to be all afore the mornin' brak, an' wait at the neist cheenge hoose till he jined them. 'Whaur, said the leddy, 'I trust ye'll lat them wait, or else sen' for them. But the yerl sat an' said never a word.
With this purpose he stopped at a cottage, where he obtained the means of making up the ring in a sealed packet like a petition, addressed, Forr his hounor the Yerl of Glenllan These.
"Fat for! she maybe didna weel ken for fat hersell, for she gar'd a' bow to her bidding, right or wrang But it was ken'd the young leddy was inclined to some o' the heresies of the country mair by token, she was sib to him nearer than our Church's rule admits of. Sae the leddy was driven to the desperate act, and the yerl has never since held his head up like a man."
But surely there was never sic a braw propine as this sent to a yerl by an auld fishwife, and through the hands of a gaberlunzie beggar." With this reflection, Edie took up his pike-staff, put on his broad-brimmed bonnet, and set forth upon his pilgrimage. The old woman remained for some time standing in a fixed posture, her eyes directed to the door through which her ambassador had departed.
Thae fallows, that are the democraws, as they ca' them, that are again' the king and the law, and hairpowder and dressing o' gentlemen's wigs a wheen blackguards they say he's come doun to speak wi' your honour about bringing doun his hill lads and Highland tenantry to break up the meetings of the Friends o' the People; and when I said your honour never meddled wi' the like o' sic things where there was like to be straiks and bloodshed, they said, if ye didna, your nevoy did, and that he was weel ken'd to be a kingsman that wad fight knee-deep, and that ye were the head and he was the hand, and that the Yerl was to bring out the men and the siller."
I hae occupied the position o' tutor to Mr Forbes; for, as Sir Pheelip Sidney says in a letter to his brither Rob, wha was efterwards Yerl o' Leicester upo' the demise o' Robert Dudley, 'Ye may get wiser men nor yersel' to converse wi' ye and instruck ye, in ane o' twa ways by muckle ootlay or muckle humility. Noo, that laddie was ane o' the finest naturs I ever cam' across, and his humility jist made it a pleesur to tak' chairge o' 'm baith mentally and morally.
'And thou winna write to the Yerl, as ye said ye would when ye were ower the Border? There's a clerk o' the Bishop of Durham ganging back, and my father is writing letters that he will send forward to the King, and thou couldst get a scart o' the pen to thy father. 'And what wad be thought of a puir man-at-arms sending letters to the Yerl? said George.
"Weel then, they say, sir, that as ye didna encourage the petition about the peace, and wadna petition in favour of the new tax, and as you were again' bringing in the yeomanry at the meal mob, but just for settling the folk wi' the constables they say ye're no a gude friend to government; and that thae sort o' meetings between sic a powerfu' man as the Yerl, and sic a wise man as you, Od they think they suld be lookit after; and some say ye should baith be shankit aff till Edinburgh Castle."
Or if not, if I may not win her, I shall still be in sight of her blessed blue een! David whistled his perplexity. 'The Yerl, said he, 'doth he ken? 'I trow not! He thinks me at Tantallon, watching for the raid the Mackays are threatening little guessing the bird would be flown. 'How cam' ye to guess that same, which was, so far as I know, only decided two days syne?
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