By this , I saw he must have heard the name all too clearly , and had already guessed I might be coming to the murder . If he chose to play this part of ignorance , it was no matter of mine ; so I smiled , said it was no very Highland-sounding name , and consented . Through all the rest of my story Alan was Mr. Thomson ; which amused me the more , as it was a piece of policy after his own heart . James Stewart , in like manner , was mentioned under the style of Mr. Thomson 's kinsman ; Colin Campbell passed as a Mr. Glen ; and to Cluny , when I came to that part of my tale , I gave the name of `` Mr. Jameson , a Highland chief . '' It was truly the most open farce , and I wondered that the lawyer should care to keep it up ; but , after all , it was quite in the taste of that age , when there were two parties in the state , and quiet persons , with no very high opinions of their own , sought out every cranny to avoid offence to either . `` Well , well , '' said the lawyer , when I had quite done , `` this is a great epic , a great Odyssey of yours . You must tell it , sir , in a sound Latinity when your scholarship is riper ; or in English if you please , though for my part I prefer the stronger tongue . You have rolled much ; quae regio in terris -- what parish in Scotland -LRB- to make a homely translation -RRB- has not been filled with your wanderings ? You have shown , besides , a singular aptitude for getting into false positions ; and , yes , upon the whole , for behaving well in them . This Mr. Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities , though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded . It would please me none the worse , if -LRB- with all his merits -RRB- he were soused in the North Sea , for the man , Mr. David , is a sore embarrassment . But you are doubtless quite right to adhere to him ; indubitably , he adhered to you . It comes -- we may say -- he was your true companion ; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit , for I dare say you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows . Well , well , these days are fortunately by ; and I think -LRB- speaking humanly -RRB- that you are near the end of your troubles . '' As he thus moralised on my adventures , he looked upon me with so much humour and benignity that I could scarce contain my satisfaction . I had been so long wandering with lawless people , and making my bed upon the hills and under the bare sky , that to sit once more in a clean , covered house , and to talk amicably with a gentleman in broadcloth , seemed mighty elevations . Even as I thought so , my eye fell on my unseemly tatters , and I was once more plunged in confusion . But the lawyer saw and understood me . He rose , called over the stair to lay another plate , for Mr. Balfour would stay to dinner , and led me into a bedroom in the upper part of the house . Here he set before me water and soap , and a comb ; and laid out some clothes that belonged to his son ; and here , with another apposite tag , he left me to my toilet .
CHAPTER XXVIII I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE I made what change I could in my appearance ; and blithe was I to look in the glass and find the beggarman a thing of the past , and David XXXXX come to life again .
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