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Should I die, will you remember that my will lies at the office of Menteith and Ross, Edinburg?" "So you have made your will?" said the captain, rather eagerly; then added, "What a courageous man you are! I never durst make mine. But then, to be sure, I have nothing to leave except my sword, which I hereby make over to you, well-beloved cousin."
When the commands had closed up we pushed on toward Edinburg, in the hope of making more captures at Narrow Passage Creek; but the Confederates, too fleet for us, got away; so General Wright halted the infantry not far from Edinburg, till rations could be brought the men.
As soon as the locomotive started he began to laugh heartily, and by the time we reached Edinburg he and his wife, though naturally grave people, were nearly in convulsions of laughter. I had no idea that the emotion of wonder would be manifested in that way by civilized beings. Of course I laughed to see them laugh, and altogether it was very funny.
"We shall miss Alick a good deal this spring," said Helen, recurring to a subject of which the family heart was full, the departure of the eldest son to "begin the world" in Mr. Menteith's office in Edinburg. He was not a very clever lad, but he was sensible and steady, and blessed with that practical mother-wit which is often better than brains.
To me little enough, merely complaining how dull he finds Edinburg now, and wishing he were back again among us all." "I do not wonder," said Helen, in a hard tone, and with that hard expression which sometimes came over her face: the earl knew it well. "Helen, I am certain something is very wrong with you. Why do you not tell it out to me?" "Hush! Here comes my father!"
In an exhaustive review of the trouble between Spain and her Cuban possessions, published in 1873, the Edinburg Review said: "It is well known that Spain governs the island of Cuba with an iron and bloodstained hand. The former holds the latter deprived of civil, political and religious liberty.
John Renwick, one of our Covenanter martyrs, was my ideal of a Christian, and when he lay in the Edinburg prison under sentence of death, his weeping friends begged him to conform and save his life. They said to him: "Dinna ye think that we, who ha' conformit may be saved?" "Aye, aye. God forbid that I should limit his grace." "An' dinna ye think, ye too could be saved and conform?" "Oh, aye aye.
"But, in order to get at the money, and alter my will, so that in no case should this sum be paid twice over, to the injury of my heir I must take care of my heir," and he slightly smiled, "I ought to go at once to Edinburg. Shall I?" Helen hesitated.
The Arcturus was detained several days discharging and taking in freight. I availed myself of the first train to visit Edinburg. A day there, and an excursion to Glasgow and Loch Lomond, agreeably occupied the time. I must confess the scenery beautiful as it is, and fraught with all the interest that history and genius can throw over it disappointed me. It was not what I expected.
But there was another side of his Edinburg life which did not appear till long after he had quitted Modern Athens forever nor even then fully; not until he had passed quite away from the comments of this mortal world.
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