“I do not conceive I do, Sir Arthur, in laughing either at him or his history.”
“Henry Maule of Melgum was a gentleman, Mr. Oldbuck.”
“I presume he had no advantage of me in that particular,” replied the Antiquary, somewhat tartly.
“Permit me, Mr. Oldbuck—he was a gentleman of high family, and ancient descent, and therefore”—
“The descendant of a Westphalian printer should speak of him with deference? Such may be your opinion, Sir Arthur—it is not mine. I conceive that my descent from that painful and industrious typographer, Wolfbrand Oldenbuck, who, in the month of December 1493, under the patronage, as the colophon tells us, of Sebaldus Scheyter and Sebastian Kammermaister, accomplished the printing of the great Chronicle of Nuremberg—I conceive, I say, that my descent from that gre
