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You bear no arms?
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I hadn't planned
on demanding terms at sword point.
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Robert McGregor of Craigrostan,
My Lord.
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So, McGregor...
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I knew your father,
an able man, if not a wise one.
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Have you taken on his mantle?
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As best I may, My Lord.
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So, how many men are you master of?
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Master of none, My Lord,
:30:46
but some 200 souls
live close by Craigrostan,
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and they're in my care.
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You are a profit and provider to them,
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is that not so?
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What I can, I do.
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It is no great matter
compared to Your Lordship's work.
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To know one's place, McGregor,
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in the order of things
is a great blessing.
:31:07
What terms, Killearn?
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A fifth, My Lord.
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A fifth, you say?
:31:13
What, is this man kin
that you offer such kindly terms?
:31:15
Am I not accustomed
to a quarter on unsecured loans?
:31:18
McGregor has 300 acres
at Craigrostan, My Lord.
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Ah. A man of property
intent on growing richer.
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Well, we have more in common
than I would have suspected, McGregor.
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£1,000 for 3 months, you say,
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and these acres of yours as security?
:31:39
And my oath.
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Ah, yes.
:31:45
Tell me, is there something
in what Killearn says
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that you might have driven off my cattle
:31:51
and returned them with stories of tinkers
caught and summarily executed?
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I have, in my day, thieved cattle,
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but none that were under my watch.