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Cadell remembers in particular, that on Ballantyne's reminding him that a motto was wanted for one of the chapters already finished, he looked out for a moment at the gloomy weather, and penned these lines 'The storm increases 'tis no sunny shower, Foster'd in the moist breast of March or April, Or such as parched summer cools his lips with.
Behind a wooded island, but quite invisible to the adult eye, the pirate craft lay, conforming in the most orthodox fashion to the descriptions in Ballantyne's books: "a schooner with a long, low black hull, and a suspicious rake to her masts. The copper on her bottom had been burnished till it looked like gold, and the black flag, with the skull and cross-bones, drooped lazily from her peak."
"You cannot control the price you will have to pay," he said to himself. That day, when Mrs. Ballantyne's solicitor returned to his office after the rising of the Court, he found Thresk waiting for him. "I wish to give evidence for Mrs. Ballantyne," said Thresk "evidence which will acquit her." He spoke with so much certainty that the solicitor was fairly startled.
He went to the office and obtained a copy of The Advocate of India, the evening newspaper of the city. He looked at the stop-press telegrams. There was no mention of Ballantyne's death. Nor on glancing down the columns could he find in any paragraph a statement that any mishap had befallen him.
Dined at James Ballantyne's, and heard his brother Sandy sing and play on the violin, beautifully as usual. James himself sang the Reel of Tullochgorum, with hearty cheer and uplifted voice. When I came home I learned that we had beat the Coal Gas Company, which is a sort of triumph.
This suspicion, upon investigation, assumed a shape sufficiently tangible to justify Ballantyne's trustees in carrying the point before the Court of Session; but they failed to establish their allegation." Life, vol. ix. pp. 178-9. A favourite domestic at Abbotsford, whose name was never to be mentioned by any of Scott's family without respect and gratitude. Life, vol. x. p. 3.
Dined with Lord Medwyn, a pleasant party. The guest of importance, Mrs. Peter Latouche from Dublin, a fine old dame, who must have been beautiful when young, being pleasant and comely at seventy, saintly it appears. June 24. Hard work with Ballantyne's proofs and revises, but got them accomplished. I am at the twelfth hour, but I think I shall finish this silly book before the tenth of July.
The Reptons, it appeared, were responsible to him for the conduct of the case. He had not any knowledge of Stella Ballantyne's destination, and he pointed to a stack of telegrams and letters as confirmation of his words. "They will all go up to Khamballa Hill," he said. "I have no other address." The next day, however, a little note of gratitude came to Thresk through the post.
In connection with the publishing business, soon added to the printing, with James Ballantyne's brother John as figure-head of the concern, a talented but dissipated and reckless "good fellow," with no more head for business than either James Ballantyne or Scott, the association bound Scott hand and foot for twenty years, and prompted him to adventurous undertakings.
You must come close day by day in your life to so much that is pitiful. One can talk to you and you'll understand. This is my first chance, the first real chance I have ever had, Henry, the very first." Thresk looked backwards over the years of Stella Ballantyne's unhappy life.
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