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have no sort of occasion for any thing of the kind at present."

"Why, then, good morning to you, for business must be minded-unless ye'll go aboard and take schnaps-you shall have a pouch-full of tea ashore-Dirk Hatteraick knows how to be civil."

There was a mixture of impudence, hardihood, and suspicious fear about this man, which was inexpressibly disgusting. His manners were those of a ruffian, conscious of the suspicion attending his character, yet aiming to bear it down by the affectation of a careless and hardy familiarity. Mannering briefly rejected his proffered civilities; and, after a surly good morning, he retired with the gypsey to that part of the ruins from which he had first made his appearance. A very narrow staircase here descended to the beach, intended probably for the convenience of the garrison during a siege. By this stair, the couple, equally amiable in appearance, and respectable by profession, descended to the

sea-side. The soi-disant captain embarked in a small boat with two men who appeared to wait for him, and the gypsey remained on the shore, reciting or singing, and gesticulating with great vehemence.

CHAPTER V.

-You have fed upon my seignories,

Disparked my parks, and felled my forest woods,
From mine own windows torn my household coat,
Razed out my impress, leaving me no sign,
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To show the world I am a gentleman.

RICHARD II.

WHEN the boat which carried the worthy Captain on board his vessel had accomplished that task, the sails began to ascend, and the ship was got under way. She fired three guns as a salute to the house of Ellangowan, and then shot away rapidly before the wind, which blew off shore, under all the sail she could crowd.

Aye, aye," said the Laird, who had sought Mannering for some time, and now joined him, "there they go-there go the free-traders-there goes Captain Dirk Hatteraick, and the Yungfrauw Ha

genslaapen, half Manks, half Dutchman, half devil! run out the boltsprit, up mainsail, top and top gallant sails, royals, and skyscrapers, and away-follow who can That fellow, Mr Mannering, is the terror of all the excise and custom-house cruisers; they can make nothing of him; he drubs them, or he distances them ;-and, speaking of excise, I come to bring you to breakfast; and you shall have some tea, that"

Mannering, by this time, was aware that one thought linked strangely on to another in the concatenation of worthy Mr Bertram's ideas,

"Like orient pearls at random strung;

and, therefore, before the current of his associations had drifted farther from the point he had left, he brought him back by some enquiry about Dirk Hatteraick.

"Ohe's a-a good sort of blackguard fellow enough no one cares to trouble him-smuggler, when his guns are in bal

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gets them mounted. He has done more mischief to the revenue folk than any rogue that ever came out of Ramsay."

"But, my good sir, such being his character, I wonder he has any protection and encouragement on this coast ?"

"Why, Mr Mannering, people must have brandy and tea, and there's none inthe country but what comes this wayand then there's short accounts, and maybe a keg or two, or a dozen pounds left at your stable door at Christmas, instead of a d-d lang account from Duncan Robb, the grocer at Kippletringan, who has aye a sum to make up, and either wants ready money, or a short-dated bill. Now, Hatteraick will take wood, or he'll take barley, or he'll take just what's convenient at the time. I'll tell you a good story about that. There was ance a laird-that's Macfie of Gudgeonford,-he had a great number of kain bens-that's hens that the tenant pay to the landlord-like a sort of

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