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David Balfour, Second Part

CHAPTER XVII
10/23

His culinary, this bowl in front of us is here to speak for.

But when it comes to the poleetical!"-- cries he, and drains the glass.
"Ay, but it will hardly prove politics in your meaning, my friend," said the gratified Miller.

"A revolution, if you like, and I think I can promise you that historical writers shall date from Mr.Balfour's cause.
But properly guided, Mr.Stewart, tenderly guided, it shall prove a peaceful revolution." "And if the damned Campbells get their ears rubbed, what care I ?" cries Stewart, smiting down his fist.
It will be thought I was not very well pleased with all this, though I could scarce forbear smiling at a kind of innocency in these old intriguers.

But it was not my view to have undergone so many sorrows for the advancement of Sheriff Miller or to make a revolution in the Parliament House: and I interposed accordingly with as much simplicity of manner as I could assume.
"I have to thank you, gentlemen, for your advice," said I."And now I would like, by your leave, to set you two or three questions.

There is one thing that has fallen rather on one side, for instance: Will this cause do any good to our friend James of the Glens ?" They seemed all a hair set back, and gave various answers, but concurring practically in one point, that James had now no hope but in the King's mercy.
"To proceed, then," said I, "will it do any good to Scotland?
We have a saying that it is an ill bird that fouls his own nest.


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