But let me once be equipped with a significant mask and an unknown character from your masquerade shop, and admitted to figure in with the 'Last Minstrel,' the 'Lady of the Lake,' and 'Guy Mannering' in the Scottish carnival, Gods! how the boys and girls will admire me! 'Here is a new wonder!' they will say.

'Ah, this is something like! Here is Godwin beaten on his own ground.

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Here is for once a Scottish writer that they cannot say has anything of the Scotchman about him.'" However, Mr.Godwin did not don the mask and domino.