"And I'm afraid to listen to ye.

Think if ye were to make me a coanvert!" "If you would allow me, my lord," returned Archie, "what I have to say is very serious to me; and be pleased to be humorous after I am gone!" "Remember, I'll hear nothing against the macers!" put in the incorrigible Glenkindie.
But Archie continued as though he had not spoken.

"I have played, both yesterday and to-day, a part for which I can only offer the excuse of youth.

I was so unwise as to go to an execution; it seems I made a scene at the gallows; not content with which, I spoke the same night in a college society against capital punishment.

This is the extent of what I have done, and in case you hear more alleged against me, I protest my innocence.