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CHAPTER IX. — MR. MANYLODES
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Alaric Tudor was very much surprised. Had he seen Sir Gregory himself, or Captain Cuttwater, walking up the street of Tavistock, he could not have been more startled. It first occurred to him that Scott must have been sent down as a third Commissioner1 to assist at the investigation2; and he would have been right glad to have known that this was the case, for he found that the management of Mr. Neverbend was no pastime. But he soon learnt that such relief was not at hand for him.
'Well, Tudor, my boy,' said he, 'and how do you like the clotted3 cream and the thick ankles of the stout4 Devonshire lasses?'
'I have neither tasted the one, nor seen the other,' said Alaric. 'As yet I have encountered nothing but the not very civil tongues, and not very clear brains of Cornish roughs.'
'A Boeotian crew! but, nevertheless, they know on which side their bread is buttered—and in general it goes hard with them but they butter it on both sides. And how does the faithful Neverbend conduct himself? Talk of Boeotians, if any man ever was born in a foggy air, it must have been my friend Fidus.'
Alaric merely shrugged6 his shoulders, and laughed slightly. 'But what on earth brings you down to Tavistock?' said he.
'Oh! I am a denizen7 of the place, naturalized, and all but settled; have vast interests here, and a future constituency. Let the Russells look well to themselves. The time is quickly coming when you will address me in the House with bitter sarcasm8 as the honourable9 but inconsistent member for Tavistock; egad, who knows but you may have to say Right Honourable?'
'Oh! I did not know the wind blew in that quarter,' said Alaric, not ill-pleased at the suggestion that he also, on some future day, might have a seat among the faithful Commons.
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undo
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contented
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folly
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eloquence
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chaff
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