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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I will give you the best advice I can. But, first, let me have his letter again." Lord Cairnforth read it slowly over, Mrs. Bruce's eager eyes watching him, and then suffered her to take it from his helpless hands, and fold it up, tenderly, as mothers do. "What do you think of it?" "Exactly what I did this morning that your boy has been very foolish, but not wicked.
It was not only probable, but right, that in this Lord Cairnforth so terribly afflicted the long line should end. As the day of the earl's majority approached, the minister's feelings were of such a mingled kind that he shrank from these demonstrations of joy, and rather repressed the warm loyalty which was springing up every where toward the young man.
Cardross confided all his troubles, nevertheless seemed both proud and hopeful of his eldest son, the heir to his honest name, which Alick would now carry out into a far wider world than that of the poor minister of Cairnforth, and doubtless, in good time, transmit honorably to a third generation.
Some of us get tolerably equal proportions of each of these; some unequal or we fancy so; but in reality, as the ancient sage says truly, "the same things come alike to all." The Earl of Cairnforth, in his imperfect fragment of a life, had had little enough of enjoyment; but he knew how to endure better than most people.
"An' nae wonder," remarked Malcolm, cynically, as he delivered the message, "for I heard him a' through the wee hours walkin' and walkin' up and doun, for a' the world like a wolf in a cage. And eh, but he's dour the day!" "A sickly man finds it difficult not to be dour at times," said the Earl of Cairnforth.
He was made to understand what a grand festival was to be held at Cairnforth, and the earl took especial pains to arrange that the feeble octogenarian should be brought to the Castle without fatigue, and enabled to appear both at the tenants' feast in the kitchen, and the more formal banquet of friends and neighbors in the hall the grand old dining-room which was arranged exactly as it had been on the earl's coming of age.
And then Helen tried, in some simple way, to make the child understand about Lord Cairnforth, and how he had been all his life so heavily afflicted; but Boy could not comprehend it as affliction at all.
"I will tell you no untruth, Lord Cairnforth. I was aware of it. That is, he I mean it was suspected that you had meant it once. I found this out don't ask me how shortly after I was married; and I determined, as the only chance of avoiding it and several other things never to write to you again; never to take the least means of bringing myself us back to your memory." "Why so?"
"I am a man, now, or ought to be," he said once, as a reason for this, after which no one made any remarks on the subject. Malcolm still retained his place as the earl's close attendant as faithful as his shadow, almost as silent. But the next year or so made a considerable alteration in Lord Cairnforth.
Six months, he says I mean Captain Bruce will, according to the Edinburg doctor's advice, set up his health entirely, if he travels about in a warm climate; and, therefore, by June, your birthday, we are sure to be back in dear old Cairnforth, to live there for the rest of our days, for he declares he likes no other place half so well. "I am right to go with him for these six months am I not?
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