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78 muckle to ware on brandy and sugar—now I have heard that you army gentlemen can sometimes buy yourselves up a step, and if a hundred or twa would help ye on such an occasion, the bit scrape o' your pen would be as gude to me as the siller, and ye might just take ye're ain time of settling it—it wad be a great convenience to me." Brown, who felt the full delicacy that wished to disguise the conferring an obligation under the show of asking a favour, thanked his grateful friend most heartily, and assured him he would have recourse to his purse, without scruple, should circumstances ever render it convenient for him. And thus they parted with many expressions of mutual regard.