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Arcadean winters are long and dreary, but no one need much pity the Arcadeans; they have learned how to make them the very festival of social life. And, in spite of her anxiety about Ronald, Margaret thoroughly enjoyed this one perhaps the more because Captain Olave Thorkald spent two months of it with them in Kirkwall.
And now he was not only to have a grievous disappointment, but also a great offence, for Peter Sinclair shared fully in the Arcadean dislike and distrust of lawyers, and would have been deeply offended at any one requiring their aid in any business transaction with him. His son's proposal to be a "writer" he took almost as a personal insult.
Through incredible hardships he had made his way thither, and a sudden and wonderful fortune had crowned his labors, first in mining and afterward in speculation and merchandising. He said that he was indeed afraid to tell her how rich he was lest to her Arcadean views the sum might appear incredible. Margaret let the letter fall on her lap and clasped her hands above it. Her face was beautiful.
At length, when the short Arcadean summer was almost over, Margaret won a hard and reluctant consent. "The lad is fit for naething better, I suppose" and the old man turned away to shed the bitterest tears of his whole life.
So, if Margaret had her doubts, she put them arbitrarily down, and sent her brother away with manifold tokens of her love among them, with a check on the Kirkwall Bank for sixty pounds, the whole of her personal savings. To this frugal Arcadean maid it seemed a large sum, but she hoped by the sacrifice to clear off Ronald's college debts, and thus enable him to start his new race unweighted.
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