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somehow connected with this uneasy feeling in my back: dost thou not think so, Paterson? yet the doctor says it is not.

And should not he know best, sir? Lord bless your honour! my joints are stiff, as most old men's are; and my back aches often enough, God wot! but I never think of asking the doctor about it. Take a musket in your hand and pace about the gallery a bit, and I'll warrant your back will get better.

Thou 'rt a rough physician, Paterson.

But a kind one, your honour, and that is more than can be said of some that are smoother.

Well, well; there's no changing thy nature, and I must e'en receive such sympathy as thou hast to give,

The German foreigner is come, Sir, that you wished to see. Miss Frankland desired me to tell you.

Let him come to me here.