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[Wedderburn]

Rest of the party, and, to break off her _tete-a-tete_ with the young
officer, fairly made a pause until Mr. Oldbuck came up. "I wished to ask
you a question, Mr. Oldbuck, concerning the date of these interesting
ruins." It would be doing injustice to Miss Wardour's _savoir faire,_ to
suppose she was not aware that such a question would lead to an answer
of no limited length. The Antiquary, starting like a war-horse at the
trumpet sound, plunged at once into the various arguments for and
against the date of 1273, which had been assigned to the priory of St.
Ruth by a late publication on Scottish architectural antiquities. He
raked up the names of all the priors who had ruled the institution, of
the nobles who had bestowed lands upon it, and of the monarchs who had
slept their last sleep among its roofless courts. As a train which takes
fire is sure to light another, if there be such in the vicinity, the
Baronet, catching at the name of one of his ancestors which occurred in
Oldbuck's disquisition, entered upon an account of his wars, his
conquests, and his trophies; and worthy Dr. Blattergowl was induced,
from the mention of a grant of lands, _cum decimis inclusis tam vicariis
quam garbalibus, et nunquan antea separatis,_ to enter into a long
explanation concerning the interpretation given by the Teind Court in
the consideration of such a clause, which had occurred in a process for
localling his last augmentation of stipend. The orators, like three
racers, each pressed forward to the goal, without much regarding how
each crossed and jostled his competitors. Mr. Oldbuck harangued, the
Baronet declaimed, Mr. Blattergowl prosed and laid down the law, while
the Latin forms of feudal grants were mingled with the jargon of
blazonry, and the yet more barbarous phraseology of the Teind Court of
Scotland. "He was," exclaimed Oldbuck, speaking of the Prior Adhemar,
"indeed an exemplary prelate
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