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The beautiful gentleness and grace of the old judge, and the delicacy of his person, thoughts, and language, spoke to Archie's heart in its own tongue. He conceived the ambition to be such another; and, when the day came for him to choose a profession, it was in emulation of Lord Glenalmond, not of Lord Hermiston, that he chose the Bar.
In his robes upon the bench, Glenalmond had a certain air of burliness: plucked of these, it was a may-pole of a man that rose unsteadily from his chair to give his visitor welcome. Archie had suffered much in the last days, he had suffered again that evening; his face was white and drawn, his eyes wild and dark. But Lord Glenalmond greeted him without the least mark of surprise or curiosity.
I have made a fool of myself, as I said in the beginning; and I have gone back, and asked my father's pardon, and placed myself wholly in his hands and he has sent me to Hermiston," with a wretched smile, "for life, I suppose and what can I say? he strikes me as having done quite right, and let me off better than I had deserved." "My poor, dear boy!" observed Glenalmond.
"And yet, do you know, I think somehow a great one." "I've had a long talk with him to-night," said Archie. "I was supposing so," said Glenalmond. "And he struck me I cannot deny that he struck me as something very big," pursued the son. "Yes, he is big. He never spoke about himself; only about me. I suppose I admired him. The dreadful part "
But I think he does." "And I am sure of it," said Glenalmond. "Has he spoken to you, then?" cried Archie. "O no," replied the judge. "I tell you honestly," said Archie, "I want to make it up to him. I will go, I have already pledged myself to go to Hermiston. That was to him.
He has all the Roman virtues: Cato and Brutus were such; I think a son's heart might well be proud of such an ancestry of one." "And I would sooner he were a plaided herd," cried Archie, with sudden bitterness. "And that is neither very wise, nor I believe entirely true," returned Glenalmond. "Before you are done you will find some of these expressions rise on you like a remorse.
But as regards him, whom I have publicly insulted? What am I to do to him? How do you pay attentions to a an Alp like that?" "Only in one way," replied Glenalmond. "Only by obedience, punctual, prompt, and scrupulous." "And I promise that he shall have it," answered Archie. "I offer you my hand in pledge of it." "And I take your hand as a solemnity," replied the judge.
I have made a fool of myself, as I said in the beginning; and I have gone back, and asked my father's pardon, and placed myself wholly in his hands and he has sent me to Hermiston," with a wretched smile, "for life, I suppose and what can I say? he strikes me as having done quite right, and let me off better than I had deserved." "My poor, dear boy!" observed Glenalmond.
"I could never deny," he began "I mean I can conceive that some men would be better dead. But who are we to know all the springs of God's unfortunate creatures? Who are we to trust ourselves where it seems that God Himself must think twice before He treads, and to do it with delight? Yes, with delight. "Perhaps not a pleasant spectacle," said Glenalmond.
Of all the guests whom he there encountered, he had toleration for only one: David Keith Carnegie, Lord Glenalmond. Lord Glenalmond was tall and emaciated, with long features and long delicate hands. He was often compared with the statue of Forbes of Culloden in the Parliament House; and his blue eye, at more than sixty, preserved some of the fire of youth.
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