St," said the Bailie--"Will you bail him for four hundred merks?" "Four
hundred merks for an old Blue-Gown! Think on the act 1701 regulating
bail-bonds!--Strike off a cipher from the sum--I am content to bail him
for forty merks." "Well, Mr. Oldbuck, everybody in Fairport is always
willing to oblige you--and besides, I know that you are a prudent man,
and one that would be as unwilling to lose forty, as four hundred merks.
So I will accept your bail, _meo periculo_--what say you to that law
phrase again? I had it from a learned counsel. I will vouch it, my lord,
he said, _meo periculo._" "And I will vouch for Edie Ochiltree, _meo
periculo,_ in like manner," said Oldbuck. "So let your clerk draw out
the bail-bond, and I will sign it." When this ceremony had been
performed, the Antiquary communicated to Edie the joyful tidings that he
was once more at liberty, and directed him to make the best of his way
to Monkbarns House, to which he himself returned with his nephew, after
having pe
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