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Rh "Undo his armour, Sibbald," said Anderson to the other servant.

"By St Andrew!" said the Captain, turning round in great astonishment, "here's a common fellow—a stipendiary with four pounds a-year and a livery-cloak, thinks himself too good to serve Ritt-raaster Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket, who has studied humanity at the Mareschal College of Aberdeen, and served half the princes of Europe!"

"Captain Dalgetty," said Lord Menteith, whose lot it was to stand peacemaker throughout the evening, "please to understand that Anderson waits upon no one but myself; but I will help Sibbald to undo your corslet with much pleasure."

"Too much trouble for you, my lord," said Dalgetty; "and yet it would do you no harm to practice how a handsome harness is put on and put off. I can step in and out of mine like a glove; only to-night, although not ebrius, I am, in the classic phrase, vino ciboque gravatus."