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Updated: June 13, 2025
Archibald is of well-known people, though poor." "Though low-born, Allister. Poverty can be tholed, and even respected; but for low birth there is no remedy but being born over again." "Well, Madame, she is Braelands now, and that is a cloak to cover all defects; and if I was you I would just see that it did so." "She is my son's wife, and must be held as such, both by gentle and simple."
"If the carriage is not at the door in fifteen minutes, you will leave Braelands this night, Thomas," said Sophy. "Listen! I give you fifteen minutes; after that I shall walk into Largo, and you can answer to your master for it. I am Mistress of Braelands. Don't forget that fact if you want to keep your place, Thomas." She turned passionately away with the words, and left the room.
But you know yourself that babyhood and womanhood are two different things; and the woman has just set at naught the baby. That is all." "No, it is not all. This Andrew Binnie is a man of great influence among the fishers, and my son cannot afford to make enemies among that class. It will be highly prejudicial to him." "I cannot help that Madame. Braelands is well able to row his own boat.
"You didn't keep it with my Andrew, for you promised to help him with Sophy, you promised that more than once or twice." "No one can help a man who fights against himself, and Andrew never did prize Sophy as Braelands did, the way that man ran after the lass, and coaxed and courted and pleaded with her! And the bonnie things he gave her! And the stone blind infatuation of the creature!
In this resolve, however, he had forgot to take into account his mother's long and absolute influence over him. When she was absent, it was comparatively easy to relegate her to the position she ought to occupy; when she was present, he found it impossible to say or do anything which made her less than Mistress of Braelands.
They would scorn to do the low, cruel, wicked things some people who call themselves 'high born' do all the time. But low or high, they are mine, and while Archie is away, I intend to see them as often as I can." This little bit of rebellion was the one thing in which she could show herself Mistress of Braelands; for she knew that she could rely on Thomas to bring the carriage to her order.
"And there is few ills that have not a good side to them, Madame. If Mr. Archibald had married Miss Roberta Elgin, as you once feared he would do, there would have been a flitting for you and for me, Madame. Miss Roberta would have had the whole of Braelands House to herself, and the twenty-two rooms of it wouldn't have been enough for her.
Almost inadvertently, because it was the shortest and most usual way, she took the route that led her past Braelands. The great house was thrown open, and on the lawns was a crowd of handsomely dressed men and women, drinking tea at little tables set under the trees and among the shrubbery.
Could any one have imagined Archie Braelands would have an attack of insanity?" Then Sophy, feeling her impotence between the tongues of her two enemies, would rise and go away, more or less angrily or sadly, followed through the hall and half-way upstairs by the snickering, confidential laughter of their common ridicule. At the latter end of June, Admiral Glamis proposed an expedition to Norway.
Every one knows she has saved money; if she does not like the Dower House, she can go to Edinburgh, or London, or anywhere she likes the further away from Braelands, the better." Madame did not go to the Dower House.
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