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CHAPTER I
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When is this clever fellow to be here ?" "He is coming by the afternoon packet to-morrow.

We must send the carriage to meet it, for Colin is bringing a stranger with him.

I came to ask you if I must have the best guest-room made ready." "Wha for ?" "He is an English gentleman, from London, father." "And you would put an Englishman in the room where the twa last Stuarts slept?
I'll not hear tell o' it.

I'm not the man to lift a quarrel my fathers dropped, but I'll hae no English body in Prince Charlie's room.

Mind that, noo! What is the man's name ?" "Mr.George Selwyn." "George Selwyn! There's nae Scotch Selwyns that I ken o'.


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