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Updated: June 16, 2025
Miss Braddon's idea of a story, like Mrs. Todgers's idea of a wooden leg, were something strange to have expounded. As a matter of personal experience, Meg's appearance to old Mr. Bertram on the road, the ruins of Derncleugh, the scene of the flageolet, and the Dominie's recognition of Harry, are the four strong notes that continue to ring in the mind after the book is laid aside.
Shall one girl be victorious over seventy boys? Shall I, Dominie Dobbs, desert my post? Again succumb to I will even depart, that I may be at my desk at matutinal hours." "You don't mean to leave us, sir?" said Mary, taking the Dominie's arm. "Even so, fair maiden, for it waxeth late, and I have my duties to perform," said the Dominie, rising from his chair. "Then you will promise to come again."
Bertram's last settlement had excited a corresponding feeling in the Dominie's bosom, which was exasperated into a sort of sickening anxiety by the discredit with which Pleydell had treated it.
The body of her death had fallen away as Christian's burden had slipped from his shoulders at the foot of the cross. The babe had gone to its father with the blessing of the Holy Ghost! Then Tess thought of Teola, and stopped on the tracks, the Dominie's last words rushing into her mind. She had understood the import of them. It had been carried to her by the awful expression upon Graves' face.
Mac-Morlan's knowledge of the world induced him to put this colour upon the matter, aware that, however honourable the fidelity of the Dominie's attachment might be both to his own heart and to the family of Ellangowan, his exterior ill qualified him to be a'squire of dames, and rendered him, upon the whole, rather a ridiculous appendage to a beautiful young woman of seventeen.
Simon Swapps, let him be hoisted." He was hoisted: his nether garments descended, and then the birch descend with all the vigour of the Dominie's muscular arm. Barnaby Bracegirdle showed every symptom of his disapproval of the measures taken; but Simon Swapps held fast, and the Dominie flogged fast.
For the present he had to let his anger lie by. Colin had gone, and given him no address in America. "He is feared I will be telling him his duty, and when he comes back that is what I shall do, if I go to London to mak him hear me." For a moment the laird looked hopefully into the dominie's face, but the hope was yet so far off he could not grasp it.
Yes, he had a sair struggle with his lower nature to the very last, but he was constantly strengthened by the conviction of a "Power closer to him than breathing, nearer than hands or feet." Nine weeks after the dominie's death they found him sitting in his chair, fallen on that sleep whose waking is eternal day. His death was like Tallisker's a perfectly natural one. He had been reading.
'God bless him for it! said Bertram, shaking the Dominie's hand; he deserves the love with which I have always regarded even that dim and imperfect shadow of his memory which my childhood retained. 'And God bless you both, my dear children! said Sampson; 'if it had not been for your sake I would have been contented had Heaven's pleasure so been to lay my head upon the turf beside my patron.
Following the sound of his voice I discovered the bird perched high upon the dominie's desk looking down at Baudrons, who crouched below him on the floor in the very act of preparing to spring, his checks swelled out and his great tail lashing the dusty floor. The door creaked as I opened it, and before I could interfere the cat was upon the desk with Peter struggling in his claws.
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