Excerpt from Redgauntlet a Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3 of 3
Nanty Ewart had now given the helm to one of his people, a bald-pated, grizzled old fellow, whose whole life bad been spent in evading the revenue laws, with now and then the relaxation of a few months imprisonment, for deforcing officers, resisting seizures, and the like.
Nanty himself sat down by Fairford, helped him to his tea, with such other refreshments as he could think of, and seemed in his way sincerely desirous to make his situation as comfortable as things admitted. Fairford had thus an opportunity to study his countenance and manners more closely.
It was plain, Ewart, though a good seaman, had not been bred upon that element. He was a reasonably good scholar, and seemed fond of shewing it, by recurring to the subject of Sallust and Juvenal; while, on the other hand, sea-phrases seldom chequered his conversation.
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