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David Ramsay started at once from his reverie , and answered in a pettish tone , `` Wow , George , man , what needs aw this din about sax score o ' pounds ? Aw the world kens I can answer aw claims on me , and you proffered yourself fair time , till his maist gracious Majesty and the noble Duke suld make settled accompts wi ' me ; and ye may ken , by your ain experience , that I canna gang rowting like an unmannered Highland stot to their doors , as ye come to mine . '' Heriot laughed , and replied , `` Well , David , I see a demand of money is like a bucket of water about your ears , and makes you a man of the world at once . And now , friend , will you tell me , like a Christian man , if you will dine with me to-morrow at noon , and bring pretty Mistress Margaret , my god-daughter , with you , to meet with our noble young countryman , the Lord of Glenvarloch ? '' `` The young Lord of Glenvarloch ! '' said the old mechanist ; `` wi ' aw my heart , and blithe I will be to see him again . We have not met these forty years -- he was twa years before me at the humanity classes -- he is a sweet youth . ''