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GUY MANNERING.
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must go see what he would have for supper—that I should set him down here!"
"O, he likes that all the better, mother;—you never saw a plainer creature in your life than the Colonel; and yet he has a spice of the devil in him too."
The rest of the evening conversation below stairs, tending little to edification, we shall, with the reader's leave, step up to the parlour.
