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"Jacobite and traitor, baith! Janet, Janet, how can you turn against ainst you, Elder; and I'll gie you no cause for

coe onhiht

the candle again; and, with it in her hand, she continued: "That's

enough anent George rex at night-ti one How is Van Hee? And Bram?"

"Bram i' them that unloaded the schooner and closed the

custom-house--the born idiots!"

"I expected that o' Bram"

"As for his father, he's the blackest rebel you could find or hear tell

o' in the twelve Provinces"

"He's a good ood man, true and sure The cause he

lifts, he'll never leave Joris and Bram--excellent! They two are a

multitude"

"Hu in his wife's face

that made it look unfamiliar to him He felt himself to be like the

prophet of Pethor--a man whose eyes are opened But Elder Semple was not