"If you will name the time and place, I will be punctually ready to

attend your lordship," said I.

He shook hands with me. "And I think my misses have some news for

you," says he, dismissing me.

I came away, vastly pleased to have my peace made, yet a little

concerned in conscience; nor could I help wondering, as I went

back, whether, perhaps, I had not been a scruple too good-natured.

But there was the fact, that this was a man that might have been my

father, an able man, a great dignitary, and one that, in the hour

of my need, had reached a hand to my assistance. I was in the

better humour to enjoy the remainder of that evening, which I

passed with the advocates, in excellent company no doubt, but

perhaps with rather more than a sufficiency of punch: for though I

went early to bed I have no clear mind of how I got there.

CHAPTER XVIII--THE TEE'D BALL

On the morrow, from the justices' private room, where none could

see me, I heard the verdict given in and judgment rendered upon

James. The Duke's words I am quite sure I have correctly; and

since that famous passage has been made a subject of dispute, I may

as well commemorate my version. Having referred to the year '45,

the chief of the Campbells, sitting as Justice-General upon the

bench, thus addressed the unfortunate Stewart before him: "If you

had been successful in that rebellion, you might have been giving

the law where you have now received the judgment of it; we, who are

this day your judges, might have been tried before one of your mock

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