"A thousand, and call them a flea's leap," answered the dependent; "I'll cause saddle my horse directly."
"Better stay till you know where you are to go, and what you are to do," quoth Bucklaw. "You know I have a kinswoman in Northumberland, Lady Blenkensop by name, whose old acquaintance I had the misfortune to lose in the period of my poverty, but the light of whose countenance shone forth upon me when the sun of my prosperity began to arise."
"D—n all such double-faced jades," exclaimed Craigengelt, heroically; "this I will say for John Craigengelt, that he is his friend's friend through good report and bad report, poverty and riches; and you know something of that yourself. Bucklaw."
"I have not forgot your merits," said his patron; "I do remember, that, in my extremities, you had a mind to crimp me for the service of the French king, or of the Pretender; and, moreover, that you
