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Updated: June 10, 2025
To do him justice, I must not omit to mention that he never made a communication on the matter to any but his sister-in-law, who would however have certainly had a more kindly as well as exculpatory feeling towards Dorothy, had she first heard the truth from her own lips.
He composed himself to silence; and Margaret, after looking at him for some moments in wonder, began in a sort of exculpatory tone: 'Of course we owe him a great deal of gratitude. It was very kind and proper to come to you when you were ill, and his death must have been a terrible shock. He was a fine young man; amiable, very attractive in manner. 'No more! muttered Philip.
In spite of the entreaties of his son, and the remonstrances of those few who ventured to speak to him on the subject, he returned on the very day of their arrival to his cabin. It was, however, with no harshness, but with gentle and even exculpatory language, he refused their request. "Think not hard of me, my son, nor you, kind friends," he said, "if my ears are deaf to your solicitations.
In speaking to them, however, they always used the most abject language, and the most humble tone and posture "Please your honour; and please your honour's honour" they knew must be repeated as a charm at the beginning and end of every equivocating, exculpatory, or supplicatory sentence; and they were much more alert in doffing their caps to these new men, than to those of what they call good old families.
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