And when I had told him yes , `` Ye 'll be no friend of his ? '' he asked , meaning , in the Scottish way , that I would be no relative . I told him no , none . `` I thought not , '' said he , `` and yet ye have a kind of gliff * of Mr. Alexander . '' * Look . I said it seemed that Ebenezer was ill-seen in the country . `` Nae doubt , '' said the landlord . `` He 's a wicked auld man , and there 's many would like to see him girning in the tow * . Jennet Clouston and mony mair that he has harried out of house and hame . And yet he was ance a fine young fellow , too . But that was before the sough ** gaed abroad about Mr. Alexander , that was like the death of him . '' * Rope . ** Report . `` And what was it ? '' I asked . `` Ou , just that he had killed him , '' said the landlord . `` Did ye never hear that ? '' `` And what would he kill him for ? '' said I. `` And what for , but just to get the place , '' said he . `` The place ? ''
XXXXX I. `` The Shaws ? ''
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