Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
There is no case that may not be made worse; this may be a very disagreeable business, but if you were to fall sick and die, it would be still more so, and for all concerned for all concerned." "I see you must know all," said Archie. "Where did you hear it?" "In the mart of scandal, in the Parliament House," 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.
The tipsy senator plunged at once into an explanation with Glenalmond. There was a point reserved yesterday, he had been able to make neither head nor tail of it, and seeing lights in the house, he had just dropped in for a glass of porter and at this point he became aware of the third person.
"Come in, come in," said he. "Come in and take a seat. "No supper," said Archie. "It is impossible that I should eat." "Not impossible," said the tall old man, laying his hand upon his shoulder, "and, if you will believe me, necessary." "You know what brings me?" said Archie, as soon as the servant had left the room. "I have a guess, I have a guess," replied Glenalmond.
"Here," he said, "I have made a fool of myself, if I have not made something worse. Do you judge between us judge between a father and a son. I can speak to you; it is not like ... I will tell you what I feel and what I mean to do; and you shall be the judge," he repeated. "I decline jurisdiction," said Glenalmond, with extreme seriousness.
There is no case that may not be made worse; this may be a very disagreeable business, but if you were to fall sick and die, it would be still more so, and for all concerned for all concerned." "I see you must know all," said Archie. "Where did you hear it?" "In the mart of scandal, in the Parliament House," said Glenalmond.
"Suppose we did not talk about that," interrupted Glenalmond. "You know it very well, it cannot in any way help that you should brood upon it, and I sometimes wonder whether you and I who are a pair of sentimentalists are quite good judges of plain men." "How do you mean?" asked Archie. "FAIR judges, mean," replied Glenalmond. "Can we be just to them? Do we not ask too much?
At that moment, coming in hissing from many potations, with a flushed countenance and blurred eyes, he was strikingly contrasted with the tall, pale, kingly figure of Glenalmond.
With the infinitely delicate sense of youth, Archie avoided the subject from that hour. It was perhaps a pity. But the shadow of a threat of ridicule sufficed; in the slight tartness of these words he read a prohibition; and it is likely that Glenalmond meant it so. Besides the veteran, the boy was without confidant or friend.
His exquisite disparity with any of his fellow-guests, his appearance as of an artist and an aristocrat stranded in rude company, riveted the boy's attention; and as curiosity and interest are the things in the world that are the most immediately and certainly rewarded, Lord Glenalmond was attracted by the boy. "And so this is your son, Hermiston?" he asked, laying his hand on Archie's shoulder.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking