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"We must take the luck as it comes, father!" "Alexa," rejoined the laird with solemnity, "you ought never to mention luck. There is no such thing. It was either for the young man's sins, or to prevent worse, or for necessary discipline, that the train was overturned. The cause is known to Him.
Would you deprive him of the opportunity, to which at least he has a right, of doing justice, and delivering his soul?" "You would have us tell the earl that his cup is found, but Mr. Crawford claims it?" said Alexa. "Andrew would have us take it to Mr. Crawford," said Dawtie, "and tell him that the earl has a claim to it."
There is the Greenwood Keep, and it still remains 'no man's land. True, the house was badly gutted by the fire, but there is plenty of good timber in the forest, and every man among us will be glad to lend a hand to the reconstruction of your fortunes. Finally, there is your tall cousin Alexa, 'Red' Oxenford's daughter.
The very qualities that had made Flamel a useful adviser made him the most dangerous of accomplices. Glennard felt himself agrope among alien forces that his own act had set in motion.... Alexa was a woman of few requirements; but her wishes, even in trifles, had a definiteness that distinguished them from the fluid impulses of her kind.
"You must pardon pride in a ruined man," he answered. "Now that I am starting to-morrow, I do not feel the same dread of being misunderstood!" "It was not kind of you, George. Knowing yourself fit to be trusted, why did you not think me capable of trusting?" "But, Alexa! a man's own father!" For a moment he showed signs of an emotion he had seldom had to repress.
Interest in the channel down which one has slid into the world is reasonable, and may be elevating; with Alexa it passed beyond good, and wrought for evil. Proud of a family with a history, and occasionally noted in the annals of the country, she regarded herself as the superior of all with whom she had hitherto come into relation.
How staid, discreet, and compact of common sense Alexa seemed to him beside Dawtie, whose want of education left her mind a waste swamp for the vagaries of whatever will-o'-the-wisp an overstrained religious fantasy might generate! But however much the laird might look the same as before, he could never, knowing that Dawtie knew what she knew, be again as he had been.
"The things that can be shaken," said Andrew, as if thinking with himself, "may last for a time, but they will at length be shaken to pieces, that the things which can not be shaken may show what they are. Whatever we call religion will vanish when we see God face to face." For awhile they went brushing through the heather in silence. "May I ask you one question, Mr. Ingram?" said Alexa.
Obeying the beckoning finger of his host, Constans advanced to the edge of the platform overhanging the enclosure. An excited murmur rose from the crowd below, and even the dignitaries upon the gallery jostled one another to obtain a favorable vantage-point. Alexa stood immediately behind Constans, her eyes bright with excitement, and her slim hand hidden in her father's huge fist.
There is no irreverence here: next to the grace of God, money is the thing hardest to get and hardest to keep. If we are not wise with it, the grace I mean money will not go far." "Not so far as the next world, anyhow!" said Alexa, as if to herself. "How dare you, child!
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