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Rh, for it is time, I believe, to close the sederunt for this night, or rather morning."

"Well then, sir, to vary the phrase, since I have answered all the questions which you have chosen to ask to-night, will you be so good as to tell me who you are that take such interest in my affairs, and who you take me to be, since my arrival has occasioned such commotion?"

"Why, sir, for myself, I am Paulus Pleydell, an advocate at the Scottish bar; and for you, it is not easy to say distinctly who you are at present; but I trust in a short time, to hail you by the title of Henry Bertram, Esq., representative of one of the oldest families in Scotland, and heir of tailzie and provision to the estate of Ellangowan—Aye," continued he, shutting his eyes and speaking to himself, "we must pass over his father, and serve him heir to his grand-father Lewis, the entailer—the only wise man of his