Get up--an' gang awa out amang your cronies,
like a good lad. There's nae body here wishes you ony ill. D'ye
hear me?"
"Friend," said I, "no Christian would turn out a fellow creature on
such a night as this and in the midst of such a commotion of the
villagers."
"Na, if ye be a mortal man," said he, "which I rather think, from
the use you made of the holy book. Nane o' your practical jokes
on strangers an' honest foks. These are some o' your Oxford
tricks, an' I'll thank you to be ower wi' them. Gracious heaven,
they are brikkin through the house at a' the four corners at the
same time!"
The lass Tibby, seeing the innkeeper was not going to prevail
with me to rise, flew towards the bed in desperation, and, seizing
me by the waist, soon landed me on the floor, saying: "Be ye deil,
be ye chiel, ye's no lie there till baith the house an' us be
swallowed up!"
Her master and mistress applauding the deed, I was obliged to
attempt dressing myself, a task to which my powers were quite
inadequate in the state I was in, but I was readily assisted by
every one of the three; and, as soon as they got my clothes thrust
on in a loose way, they shut their eyes lest they should see what
might drive them distracted, and thrust me out to the street,
cursing me, and calling on the fiends to take their prey and be
gone.
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