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Mr Cairns had been with her all the morning, flattering her vanity, worshipping her power, and generally instructing her in her own greatness also putting in a word or two anent his friend Mr Crathie and his troubles with her ladyship's fisher tenants.
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When Miss Horn left him with a farewell kindlier than her greeting rendered yet more restless by her talk, he went back to the stable, saddled Kelpie, and took her out for an airing. As he passed the factor's house, Mrs Crathie saw him from the window. Her colour rose.
I say this, not to excuse, but to enhance his work. "My tenants, I will do my best to give you fair play. My friend and factor, Mr Crathie, has confided to me his doubts whether he may not have been a little hard: he is prepared to reconsider some of your cases. Do not imagine that I am going to be a careless man of business.
"I am glad indeed to see you, Mr Crathie," he said, "but I fear you are out too soon." "I am quite well since yesterday, my lord," returned the factor, his face shining with pleasure. "Your lordship's accession has made a young man of me again. Here I am to render account of my stewardship." "I want none, Mr Crathie nothing, that is, beyond a summary statement of how things stand with me."
He owed it to me to see you safely home." "But since I am safely home!..." obstinately. "You very well might not have been. What the stranger himself must think of you I don't know. Have you any idea who he was?" "Yes. Sir Edwin Crathie?" "Sir Edwin Crathie! Do you mean the Cabinet Minister?" "So he said." "And did you tell him who you were?" Again there was a gleam under the lowered lashes.
He went to the House, and there was referred to the factor. But when he knocked at his door, and requested the key of the cottage, Mr Crathie, who was in the middle of his third tumbler, came raging out of his dining room, cursed him for an old Highland goat, and heaped insults on him and his grandson indiscriminately.
Mr Crathie, seeing nothing more of Malcolm, believed himself at last well rid of him; but it was days before his wrath ceased to flame, and then it went on smouldering. Nothing occurred to take him to the Seaton, and no business brought any of the fisher people to his office during that time. Hence he heard nothing of the mode of Malcolm's departure.
When Hal had poured her tale of woe into Lorraine's ear, she had known that Lorraine was genuinely interested and sorry and yet, also, that something else occupied her mind at the same time. Sitting now, opposite to Sir Edwin Crathie, it was perfectly apparent for the time being that his mind was entirely at her service.
The sources of the factor's restless discomfort were now two the first, that he had lifted his hand to women; the second, the old ground of his quarrel with Malcolm brought up by Lizzy. All his life, since ever he had had business, Mr. Crathie had prided himself on his honesty, and was therefore in one of the most dangerous moral positions a man could occupy ruinous even to the honesty itself.
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