The Master of Ballantrae Quotes

Col. Francis Burke: Now be off with you while I still have stomach to eat. And if you've got any of those screeching bagpipes about, please don't toot them so I can hear.

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Col. Francis Burke: [Listening to Jamie trying to read aloud the Latin inscription on a ring] Lift up the eyes, you're saying, unless my Latin professor was a lying fraud.

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Col. Francis Burke: Why, you swindling scum of a coward! You mouse-hearted imitation of a man! You green crawling snake that slipped up from the slime when your thieving mother wasn't looking!

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Jamie Durie: Burke, we've got to get out of here.
Col. Francis Burke: And what could be simpler? The guard could have no objection to that!

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