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CHAPTER XXXI
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Many, come up, sir, with your gentle blood!
Here's a red stream beneath this coarse blue doublet,
From the far source of old Assyrian kings.
Who first made mankind subject to their sway.
Old Play.
The sounds to which we alluded4 in our last, were no other than the grumbling5 tones of Richie Moniplies's voice.
This worthy6, like some other persons who rank high in their own opinion, was very apt, when he could have no other auditor7, to hold conversation with one who was sure to be a willing listener—I mean with himself. He was now brushing and arranging Lord Glenvarloch's clothes, with as much composure and quiet assiduity as if he had never been out of his service, and grumbling betwixt whiles to the following purpose:—“Hump—ay, time cloak and jerkin were through my hands—I question if horsehair has been passed over them since they and I last parted. The embroidery8 finely frayed9 too—and the gold buttons of the cloak—By my conscience, and as I am an honest man, there is a round dozen of them gane! This comes of Alsatian frolics—God keep us with his grace, and not give us over to our own devices!—I see no sword—but that will be in respect of present circumstances.”
Nigel for some time could not help believing that he was still in a dream, so improbable did it seem that his domestic, whom he supposed to be in Scotland, should have found him out, and obtained access to him, in his present circumstances. Looking through the curtains, however, he became well assured of the fact, when he
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