Guy Mannering.

GUY MANNERING. 91
CHAPTER V.
- You have fed upon my seignories,
Disparked my parks, and felled my forest woods,
From mine own windows torn my household coat,
Razed out my impress, leaving me no sign,
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To show the world I am a gentleman.
RICHARD II.
WHEN the boat which carried the worthy captain on
board his vessel had accomplished that task, the sails
began to ascend, and the ship was got under way. She
fired three guns as a salute to the house of Ellangowan,
and then shot away rapidly before the wind, which blew
off shore, under all the sail she could crowd.
" Ay, ay," said the Laird, who had sought Mannering
for some time, and now joined him, "there they gothere go the free-traders-there go Captain Dirk Hatteraick, and the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, half Manks,
half Dutchman, half devil! run out the boltsprit, up
main-sail, top and top-gallant sails, royals, and skyscrapers,
and away-follow who can! That fellow, 3Mr. Mannering, is the terror of all the excise and custom-house
cruizers; they can make nothing of him; he drubs them,
or he distances them;-and speaking of excise, I come
to bring you to breakfast; and you shall have some tea,
that "
Mannering, by this time, was aware that one thought