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erence that she is a Scotchwoman, I judge, and as flat as
the fens of Holland.”
Tummas honoured Jeanie Deans with such a stare, as
the pampered domestics of the rich, whether spiritual
or temporal, usually esteem it part of their privilege to
bestow upon the poor, and then desired Mr. Stubbs and
his charge to step in till he informed his master of their
presence.
The room into which he showed them was a sort of
steward’s parlour, hung with a county map or two, and
three or four prints of eminent persons connected with
the county, as Sir William Monson, James York the
blacksmith of Lincoln,* and the famous Peregrine, Lord
Willoughby, in complete armour, looking as when he said
in the words of the legend below the engraving,—
“Stand to it, noble pikemen,
And face ye well about;
And shoot ye sharp, bold bowmen,
And we will keep them out.
Sir Walter Scott
“Ye musquet and calliver-men,
Do you prove true to me,
I’ll be the foremost man in fight,
Said brave Lord Willoughbee.”
When they had entered this apartment, Tummas as a
matter of course offered, and as a matter of course Mr.
Stubbs accepted, a “summat” to eat and drink, being
the respectable relies of a gammon of bacon, and a whole
whiskin, or black pot of sufficient double ale. To these
eatables Mr. Beadle seriously inclined himself, and (for
we must do him justice) not without an invitation to
Jeanie, in which Tummas joined, that his prisoner or
charge would follow his good example. But although
she might have stood in need of refreshment, considering
she had tasted no food that day, the anxiety of the
moment, her own sparing and abstemious habits, and a
bashful aversion to eat in company of the two strangers,
induced her to decline their courtesy. So she sate in
* Author of the Union of Honour, a treatise on English Her- a chair apart, while Mr. Stubbs and Mr. Tummas, who
aldry. London, 1641.
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