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To the letting off of what, then?

No matter what: I had a comparison of my own, but I'll keep it to myself.

Very well, David; just as you please; for I can see now what an angry man is like, without your giving yourself any further trouble.

Ay, ay! jeer away sir! you are just like your poor silly affected master up stairs, who simpers whenever I open my mouth to speak, as if nobody had any sense but himself.

I don't think that my master sets up for a wise man neither, master David; but he's young and well made, and

He well made, hang him! his uncle is a better made man by half.—Ay, there is a gentleman for ye! a reasonable, sensible, mannerly gentleman! he don't break in upon one with his sneers and his jeers when a body is talking soberly and sensibly.