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 the privilege of a formal trial, which our law indulges to the worst malefactor! Even to witness such tyranny, and still more to suffer under it, is enough to make the blood of the tamest slave boil within him."

"To be sure," said Cuddie, hearing and partly understanding what had broken from Morton in resentment of his injuries, "it is no right to speak evil o' dignities—my auld leddy aye said that, as nae doubt she had a good right to do, being in a place o' dignity hersel; and troth I listened to her very patiently, for she aye ordered a dram, or a sowp kale, or something to us, after she had gi'en us a hearing on our duties. But de'il a dram, or kale, or ony thing else—no sae muckle as a cup o' cauld water do thae lords at Edinburgh gie us; and yet they are heading and hanging amang us, and trailing us after thae black-guard troopers, and taking our goods and gear as if we were outlaws. I canna say I tak it kind at their hands."