THE BLACK DWARF.
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CHAPTER IV.
I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind;
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
That I might love thee something.
Timon of Athens.
On the morning, after breakfast, Earnscliff took leave of his hospitable friends, promising to return in time to partake of the venison, which had arrived from his house. Hobbie, who apparently took leave of him at the door of his habitation, slunk out, however, and joined him at the top of the hill.
"Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr Patrick; feind o' me will mistryst you for a' my mother says. I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do—we manna vex her at nae rate—it was
