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The upshot was, as already stated, that the Near and Middle East were subjected to European political domination as never before. But there was another side to the shield.
The upshot of the conference was that Weir was secretly led to a ``laigh'' cellar in the house of Warriston, to await the appointed time for the execution of the murder. Weir remained in the cellar until midnight. Jean came for him at that hour and led him up into the hall. Thence the pair proceeded to the room in which John Kincaid was lying asleep.
"That, you understand, is my question," she concluded with a faint smile; and he answered hesitatingly: "What can it matter, when the upshot is something I infinitely regret?" "Having refused me? Don't!" She spoke with deep seriousness, bending her eyes full on his: "Ah, I have suffered suffered! But I have learned also my life has been enlarged. You see how I have understood you both.
The upshot of it all was this, that as no Lorna came to me, except in dreams or fancy, and as my life was not worth living without constant sign of her, forth I must again to find her, and say more than a man can tell. It lay upon my conscience often that I had not made dear Annie secret to this history; although in all things I could trust her, and she loved me like a lamb.
It was in vain that I tried to redeem the fault by taking part with Learmont, under the determination, when the black hour of defeat or dismay should come upon us, to take my stand with him, and, regardless of Wallace, to consider him as the chief and champion of our covenanted liberties. But why do I dwell on these intents? Let me hasten to describe the upshot of our enterprise.
Tressilian, musing what the upshot of this mummery was to be, yet satisfied there was to be some serious result, by the confidence with which the boy had put himself in his power, suffered himself to be conducted to that side of the little thicket of gorse and brushwood which was farthest from the circle of stones, and there sat down; and as it occurred to him that, after all, this might be a trick for stealing his horse, he kept his hand on the boy's collar, determined to make him hostage for its safety.
The upshot of the Fronde was the nobility were more discredited than ever; the parlement was forbidden to devote attention to political or financial affairs; Paris was disarmed and lost the right of electing its own municipal officers; the royal authority was even stronger than under Richelieu because an unsuccessful attempt had been made to weaken it.
“The general subject of Latin composition, my dear son, has ever interested me much, and you see only one point in it has made me speak for a quarter of an hour; but now that I have had my say about it, what is its upshot?
I know not what reflection this innocent pleasantry of mine provoked on the good lady's part; the upshot of them at all events was to make her say 'Well, I never asked her to come; I'm very glad of that. It is all their own doing. 'Their own you mean Jasper's and hers? 'No indeed. I mean her mother's and Mrs. Allen's; the girl's too of course. They put themselves upon us.
She was no such fool, however; it's from her you must inherit your excellent good sense; and she refused to be bandied from one to another. Both got upon their knees to her; and the upshot of the matter for that while was that she showed both of them the door. That was in August; dear me! the same year I came from college. The scene must have been highly farcical."
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