`` Little enough , to be sure , '' said Hoseason ; and then , `` if they knew , '' he added , drily . `` But I think , if I was to try , that I could hold my tongue about it . '' `` Ah , but I 'll begowk * ye there ! '' cried the gentleman . `` Play me false , and I 'll play you cunning . If a hand is laid upon me , they shall ken what money it is . '' * Befool . `` Well , '' returned the captain , `` what must be must . Sixty guineas , and done . Here 's my hand upon it . '' `` And here 's mine , '' said the other . And thereupon the captain went out -LRB- rather hurriedly , I thought -RRB- , and left me alone in the round-house with the stranger . At that period -LRB- so soon after the forty-five -RRB- there were many exiled gentlemen coming back at the peril of their lives , either to see their friends or to collect a little money ; and as for the Highland chiefs that had been forfeited , it was a common matter of talk how their tenants would stint themselves to send them money , and their clansmen outface the soldiery to get it in , and run the gauntlet of our great navy to carry it across . All this I had , of course , heard tell of ; and now I had a man under my eyes whose life was forfeit on all these counts and upon one more , for he was not only a rebel and a smuggler of rents , but had taken service with King Louis of France . And as if all this were not enough , he had a belt full of golden guineas round his loins . Whatever my opinions , I could not look on such a man without a lively interest . `` And so you 're a Jacobite ? '' said I , as I set meat before him . `` Ay , '' said he , beginning to eat . `` And you , by your long face , should be a Whig ? ''
* * XXXXX or Whigamore was the cant name for those who were loyal to King George .
Ay Befool France Highland Jacobite Whig guineas left round-house smuggler