Guy Mannering.

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to taking off his glass of ale in exactly the same time and
measure with the Laird, and in uttering certain indistinct
murmurs of acquiescence at the conclusion of the long
and winding stories of Ellangowan.
On one of these occasions, he presented for the first
time t( Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure,
attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured
handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy
neck, and his nether person arrayed in grey breeches,
dark-blue stockings, clouted shoes, and small copper
buckles.
Such is a brief outline of the lives and fortunes of
those two persons, in whose society Mannering now found
himself comfortably seated.