“His lordship did not go to bed a spinning-jenny, and rise up a lord, like some of them,” put in Saunders.
“Saunders,” said the peer, doubtfully, “eloquence rather bores people.”
“Then I mustn't speak again, my lord,” said Saunders, respectfully.
“Noo,” said the fair inquisitor, “ye shall tell me how ye came to be lorrds, your faemily?”
“Saunders!”
“Na! ye manna flee to Sandy for a thing, ye are no a bairn, are ye?”
Here was a dilemma, the Saunders prop knocked rudely away, and obliged to think for ourselves.
But Saunders would come to his distressed master's assistance. He furtively conveyed to him a plump book—this was Saunders's manual of faith; the author was Mr. Burke, not Edmund.
Lord Ipsden ran hastily over the page, closed the book, and said, “Here is the story.
“Five hundred years ago—”