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“So say I,” cried our friend Proudfute, from the top of his mare.
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Proudfute; “and may the blessing of God and St. John give him strength and fortune, since he strikes for the orphan and fatherless!”
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Proudfute lying on its face across the kennel in the manner in which he had fallen under the blow; as our readers will easily imagine, of Anthony
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Proudfute during his harangue had greatly disconcerted him, and altogether altered the character of the inquiry which, with Henry Gow to back him, he would probably have thought most fitting for the occasion.
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Honest Proudfute being next called upon, began his statement with an air of more importance.
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But before the meeting dissolved, Bailie Craigdallie thought it meet to inquire who was to be the champion of Maudie, or Magdalen, Proudfute and her two children.
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“Ye — ye — yes,” said Proudfute, in a melancholy tone, “he has got my purse; but there is less matter since he hath left the hawking bag.”
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Proudfute, having been active in spreading these reports, as indeed his element lay in such gossipred, some words passed betwixt him and me on the subject; and, as I think, he left me with the purpose of visiting Henry
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Proudfute, though taken at advantage at first, has, as he has told us; recovered his reputation and that of the burgh.
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In Scott's novel, _The Fair Maid of Perth_, the church is the scene of the trial by bier-right to discover the slayer of Proudfute.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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