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"Then what do you want me to do with it?" asked Thresk. "I want you to take it away." Ballantyne was taking a casuistical way of satisfying his conscience, and he was aware of it. He would not destroy the portrait no! But he wouldn't keep it either. "You are going straight back to England," he said. "Take it with you.
On the whole subject of expectant motherhood and the morbid influences which may act upon it, the greatest living authority is my friend and teacher, Dr. J. W. Ballantyne of Edinburgh. He contributed an important paper on this subject to our first National Conference on Infantile Mortality held in 1906. I only wish it were possible to reproduce in full here Dr.
Colonel Ferguson dined with us, and spent the afternoon. June 15. Another charming day. Up and despatched packets for Ballantyne and Cadell; neither of them was furiously to the purpose, but I had a humour to be alert. I walked over to Huntly Burn, and round by Chiefswood and Janeswood, where I saw Captain Hamilton. He is busy finishing his Peninsular campaigns.
He leapt into the air and with his crop he struck savagely once, twice and thrice at the floor between the wall and the box. Then he turned to Thresk with every muscle working in his face. "Did you see?" he cried. "Did you see?" "What? There was nothing to see!" "Nothing!" screamed Ballantyne. He picked up the box and placed it on the table, thrusting it under Thresk's hand. "Hold that!
Ballantyne names this latter subdivision of divination fetomancy or teratoscopy, and thus renders a special chapter as to omens derived from monstrous births, given by Lenormant:
Robert Pettifer was a lean wiry man of fifty-five whose brown dried face seemed by a sort of climatic change to have taken on the colour of the binding of his law-books. He, too, was a little troubled by the story, but he was of a fair and cautious mind. "Stopped?" he said. "How? We can't arrest Mrs. Ballantyne again." "No," replied Mrs. Pettifer. "Robert, you must do something."
"From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show." Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes. Mr. Cadell and Mr. Ballantyne had arrived at Abbotsford on the 18th, bringing with them the good news from Edinburgh of the payment of the second dividend, and of the handsome conduct of the creditors. Next morning Mr.
Her face suddenly flushed and with a swift and violent gesture she tore at the necklace round her throat. The clasp broke, the beads fell with a clatter upon her plate, leaving her throat bare. For a moment Ballantyne stared at her, unable to believe his eyes. So many times he had made her the butt of his savage humour and she had offered no reply. Now she actually dared him!
"I stood by the table holding the despatch-box firmly in my hands as Ballantyne had urgently asked me to do." "Quite so," said Mr. Travers; and the attention of the court was now directed to that despatch-box and the portrait of Bahadur Salak which it contained.
There is that august tribunal over which at one time reigned Scott's genial friend Ballantyne, succeeded by the sententious Tait, himself a man of taste and a collector, and since presided over by the great Nisbet, whose hand has dropped the ensign of office even before the present lot has an opportunity of obtaining from it the crowning honour.
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