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Miss Oliphant, I am grateful to you for sharing this confidence with me. You can help Roger in this matter better than I can." She looked at him with a flush in her face, and then replied rather dismally, "I fear not for, to be as frank with you as you are with me, I am dreadfully afraid Roger is right. The same fancy passed through my mind when first I saw Mr Ratman.
Sir Hugh invited M. Des Etangs, the late General Oliphant and myself to be present at the uncovering, which had to take place at seven in the morning, in order to afford a sufficiently long day for the exposition.
His master furnished him with what he needed, and bade him send word to him if he should find himself in any trouble or difficulty. "You'll find him out easy enough," said the bullock-driver to Mr Oliphant, "for there's a party of mounted police setting off this afternoon for the Murray, and the crossing's only about two miles lower down than the hut.
Mary's heart ached for him, but exhaustion and anxiety quite deprived her of the power of speaking or thinking collectively. The horses were speedily brought. Frank held out his uninjured arm to help Mary Oliphant to mount her pony. "I'm so very, very sorry," she said, "to have caused this disaster, and spoiled our happy day through my foolish timidity."
Oliphant , and many others. Poet, practised medicine at Shaftesbury. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Royalists and fought at the second battle of Newbury. He wrote a play, Loves Victory , and an epic Pharonnida . With occasional beauties he is, in the main, heavy and stiff, and is almost forgotten. He influenced Keats. Historical and scientific writer, was b. at Peebles.
It was still blowing and raining as hard as ever, but I took my two hours' exercise notwithstanding, clad in Mackintosh. Frederick and Oliphant, who went on shore the day before yesterday to dine with Sir J. Bowring, have not yet returned. Seven P.M. The weather cleared about noon. I remained in my cabin as usual till after five, when I ordered my boat and went on shore.
It soon came. Oliphant, it appeared, was the purse-bearer of the household, and woeful straits that poor purse-bearer must have been often put to. I questioned him as to his master's revenues, but could get no clear answer. There were payments due next month in Florence which would solve the difficulties for the winter, but in the meantime expenditure had beaten income.
A flicker of a smile crossed his face. "I'll lee like a Scotch packman, and the Father o' lees could do nae mair. You need have no fear for your siller, sir. I've aye repaid when I borrowed, though you may have to wait a bittock." And the strange fellow strolled off. At dinner no Duchess appeared till long after the appointed hour, nor was there any sign of Oliphant.
Anyone who takes the trouble to read 'The Manual of Religious Belief in a Dialogue between Father and Son, compiled by William Burness, Farmer, Mount Oliphant, and transcribed with Grammatical Corrections by John Murdoch, Teacher, will see that the man was of too loving and kindly a nature to be strictly orthodox.
But was Henderson unwarned and uninstructed, or, did he fail after ample instruction? That is the difficult point raised by the very curious case of Mr. Robert Oliphant, which has never been mentioned, I think, by the many minute students of this bewildering affair.
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