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He flew his private signal, and none heeded it; It seemed he was abroad in a world from which the very hope of intimacy was banished; and he looked round about him on the concourse of his fellow-students, and forward to the trivial days and acquaintances that were to come, without hope or interest. 'My poor, dear boy! observed Glenalmond.
Carstairs returned at this moment, and rapidly laid out a little supper; during which Lord Glenalmond spoke at large and a little vaguely on indifferent subjects, so that it might be rather said of him that he made a cheerful noise, than that he contributed to human conversation; and Archie sat upon the other side, not heeding him, brooding over his wrongs and errors.
From Stirling the tourists proceeded northwards by Crieff and Glenalmond to Taymouth; thence, keeping by the banks of the river, to Aberfeldy, whose birks he immortalised in song. Here he had the good fortune to meet Niel Gow and to hear him playing.
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.
"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.
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.
And may not each have relevant excuses?" "Ah, but we do not talk of punishing the good," cried Archie. "No, we do not talk of it," said Glenalmond. "But I think we do it. Your father, for instance." "You think I have punished him?" cried Archie. Lord Glenalmond bowed his head. "I think I have," said Archie. "And the worst is, I think he feels it! How much, who can tell, with such a being?
"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 "
"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. Tigris ut aspera." "Perhaps not a pleasant spectacle," said Glenalmond.
No one could have guessed its nature from your father: from Glenkindie, yes, his malice sparked out of him a little grossly. But your father, no. A man of granite. The next moment he pounced upon Creech. `Mr. Creech, says he, `I'll take a look of that sasine, and for thirty minutes after," said Glenalmond, with a smile, "Messrs.
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