[Guy Mannering or The Astrologer Complete by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookGuy Mannering or The Astrologer Complete CHAPTER IX 7/11
Ye'll no deny that, Mrs. Rebecca? though I dare to say ye forgot to put your mistress in mind of what ye promised to say when I gied ye mony a half-crown.
But ye'll no deny what I am saying now, lass ?' 'I ken naething at a' about it,' answered Rebecca, doggedly, and looking straight forward with the firm countenance of one not disposed to be compelled to remember more than was agreeable to her. 'Weel said, Rebecca! ye're satisfied wi' your ain share ony way,' rejoined the tobacconist. The buck of the second-head, for a buck of the first-head he was not, had hitherto been slapping his boots with his switch-whip, and looking like a spoiled child that has lost its supper.
His murmurs, however, were all vented inwardly, or at most in a soliloquy such as this--'I am sorry, by G-d, I ever plagued myself about her.
I came here, by G-d, one night to drink tea, and I left King and the Duke's rider Will Hack.
They were toasting a round of running horses; by G-d, I might have got leave to wear the jacket as well as other folk if I had carried it on with them; and she has not so much as left me that hundred!' 'We'll make the payment of the note quite agreeable,' said Mr.Protocol, who had no wish to increase at that moment the odium attached to his office.
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