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"And I am Tonald Campbell, piper's sister's son to his grace the great, grand Tuke of Argyle," thundered out the Heelandman, wi' a voice that was fearsome to hear. "And what about that?" quo' Mr. Weft, rather snappishly, as I thocht. "If ye were the great, grand Duke of Argyle himself, as ye ca' him, I'll no permit you to kick up a dust in my shop." "Ye scounrel," said Donald, seizing Mr.
"I believe it to be quite genuine!" said Lestrange. "If it be, there is the more reason in what I am doing, sir." Lestrange turned abruptly to the curate, saying "Come along, Hardy! I can't bear to see the butchery!" "Depend on it," returned the curate laughing, "the surgeon knows his knife! You know what you're about, don't you, Mr. Tuke?"
"I have visited the wasted remnants of the once noble Red Man, on his reservation grounds in North America, and explored the "negro quarter" of the degraded and enslaved African, but never have I seen misery so intense, or physical degradation so complete, as among the dwellers in the bog-holes of Erris." Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847, by James H. Tuke, of York. Ante, p. 158.
Their mother had repented telling them the truth about Richard, and pretended to have discovered that, while sir Wilton was indeed Richard's father, Mrs. Tuke was after all his mother. "Yes, that is good," he said, "though it be only in misfortune! But I am a wretched creature, and no good to anybody; you are a strong man, Richard; I shall never be worth calling your brother!"
"I wish I had been content to take you with all your ugliness, and bring you up myself, instead of marrying Lot's widow!" Richard fancied he preferred the bringing up he had had, but he said nothing. Indeed he could make nothing of the whole business. How was it that, if sir Wilton had done his mother no wrong, his mother was the wife of John Tuke? He was bewildered.
"We could not leave her at the cottage; it was not a fit place for her. Mr. Tuke had to go to his grandfather's four miles and I had to stay with her till he came back. Old Simon came himself in his spring-cart, and took her away." "Was there no woman at the cottage?" "Yes, but worn out with work and children. Her night's rest was of more consequence to her than ten nights' waking would be to me."
I believe Richard there the child of your sister Robina and myself; and it shall not be my fault if he don't have his rights! At the same time I promise nothing, and will manage things as I see best." "At your pleasure, sir!" answered Mrs. Tuke. "Should you mind, sir, if I went to see Mr. Wingfold before I go?" asked Richard. "Who's he?" "The clergyman of the next parish, sir."
In the first place she had discovered, while arranging her late husband's library, a book which had evidently suggested his ideas of reformation in the treatment of the insane. It was called, "Description of the Retreat, an institution near York for insane persons of the Society of Friends. Written by Samuel Tuke."
The carelessness and neglect of their duty by Irish landlords have so often come before us during the progress of the Famine, that it is a pleasure to meet with something worth quoting on the other side. "Throughout Donegal we found," says Mr. Tuke, "the resident proprietors doing much for their suffering tenantry; in many cases, all that landlords could do for their relief and assistance.
James H. Tuke, "the roads in many places became as charnel-houses, and several car and coach drivers have assured me that they rarely drove anywhere without seeing dead bodies strewn along the road side, and that, in the dark, they had even gone over them.
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