and Meg Merrilies utterly so, by the various accounts which she formerly gave of the matter, and her impudent denial of all knowledge of the fact when I examined her respecting it."
"What must be done then?"
"We must try what proof can be got at in Holland, among the persons by whom our young friend was educated.—But then the fear of being called in question for the murder may make them silent; or if they speak, they are either foreigners or outlawed smugglers.—In short, I see doubts."
"Under favour, most learned and honoured sir," said the Dominie, " I trust He who hath restored little Harry Bertram to his friends, will not leave his own work imperfect."
"I trust so too, Mr. Sampson; but we must use means; and I am afraid we shall have more difficulty in procuring them than I at first thought.—But a faint heart never won a fair lady—and, by the way,
