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He needed his present cleverness too much to spend a grain of it on self-reproach. He went to his safe and took out a paper that had been lying there ready to be used, slipped it into his pocket and went, before his spirit had time to cool, to see Madame Beattie. Sophy admitted him and left him in the library, while she went to summon her.
"Grandmother," said she, in the perfect tone she used toward her, clear and not too loud, "Aunt Patricia Beattie is coming." Grandmother lifted large black eyes dulled by the broken surface of age, to Esther's face. There was no envy in the gaze but wonder chiefly. "Is that youth?" the eyes inquired. "Useless, not especially admirable but curious."
Dr. James Beattie has written, "Though mankind have at all times had a persuasion of the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body was a doctrine peculiar to early Christianity." S.T. Coleridge has written, "Some of the most influential of the early Christian writers were materialists, holding the soul to be material corporeal.
"I know who took the necklace." "What?" His movement must have shaken the touch on his arm, for Esther's hand fell. "You don't suppose I'm a fool, do you?" inquired Madame Beattie. "I knew it was going to happen. I saw the whole thing." "Then," said Esther, slipping away from him a pace, "you didn't do it after all."
Then, to her own amazement, for she hardly knew the sensation and never with such intensity as overwhelmed her now, Anne felt very angry. "Why," she said, in a tone that sounded like wonder, "you are a dreadful woman. Do you know what a dreadful woman you are? Oh, you must go away, Madame Beattie. You must go out of this house at once. I can't have you here."
Johnson, on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks, upon my repeating this passage to him, exclaimed 'Oil of vitriol ! BOSWELL. Psalms, cxli. 5. 'We all love Beattie, he had said. Ante, ii. 148. This, I find, is a Scotticism.
Burke, Robertson, the Wartons, Gray, Mason, Gibbon, Adam Smith, Beattie, Sir William Jones, Goldsmith, and Churchill, were the most distinguished writers of what may be called the second generation of the Johnsonian age. Of these men Churchill was the only one in whom we can trace the stronger lineaments of that character which, when Johnson first came up to London, was common among authors.
Not even to settle with his creditors." "That's it," said Madame Beattie. "He's got to make it. And I'm his first creditor. I must be paid first." "You haven't told him so?" said Lydia, in a manner of fending her off. "It isn't time. He hasn't recovered his nerve. But he will, digging in that absurd garden." "And when you think he has, you'll tell him?" "Why, of course."
Nicholas, at Aberdeen, with the following inscription from the pen of Dr. James Gregory, Professor of Physic, at Edinburgh. Memoriae. Sacrum. JACOBI. BEATTIE. LL.D. Ethices. In. Academia. Marescallana. hujus. Urbis. Per. XLIII. Annos. Professoris. Meritissimi. Viri. Pietate. Probitate. Ingenio. atque. Doctrina. Praestantis. Scriptoris. Elegantissimi. Poetae. Suavissimi. Philosophi. Vere.
He couldn't help remembering that his father had called him "son" in a poignancy of sympathy all through the trials of the past, and it hurt to hear it now. It linked that time with this, as Madame Beattie, in her unabashed self-seeking, linked it. Perhaps he was never to escape. A prisoner, that was what he was.
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