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And now, between these two natures so antipathetic, so hateful to each other, there was depending an unpardonable affront: and the providence of God alone might foresee the manner in which it would be resented by Lord Hermiston.
"You do me injustice there, sir," said Archie. "I am loyal; I will not boast; but any interest I may have ever felt in the French " "Have ye been so loyal to me?" interrupted his father. There came no reply. "I think not," continued Hermiston. "And I would send no man to be a servant to the King, God bless him! that has proved such a shauchling son to his own faither.
"There was nothing about your gorge rising, then?" "That was afterwards, my lord, as I was leaving the Speculative. I said I had been to see the miserable creature hanged, and my gorge rose at it." "Did ye, though?" said Hermiston. "And I suppose ye knew who haangit him?" "I was present at the trial; I ought to tell you that, I ought to explain.
She was in love with herself, her destiny, the air of the hills, the benediction of the sun. All the way home, she continued under the intoxication of these sky-scraping spirits. At table she could talk freely of young Hermiston; gave her opinion of him off-hand and with a loud voice, that he was a handsome young gentleman, real well mannered and sensible-like, but it was a pity he looked doleful.
Lastly, the name Hermiston itself is taken from a farm on the Water of Ale, between Ettrick and Teviotdale, and close to the proper country of the Elliotts. But it is with the general and essential that the artist deals, and questions of strict historical perspective or local definition are beside the mark in considering his work.
At every word, this sense of the greatness of Lord Hermiston's spirit struck more home; and along with it that of his own impotence, who had struck and perhaps basely struck at his own father, and not reached so far as to have even nettled him. "I place myself in your hands without reserve," he said. "That's the first sensible word I've had of ye the night," said Hermiston.
He cursed Archie for a cold-hearted, unfriendly, rude, rude dog; and himself still more passionately for a fool in having come to Hermiston when he might have sought refuge in almost any other house in Scotland. But the step once taken, was practically irretrievable.
But Archie, with his masculine sense of responsibility, must reason; he must dwell on some future good, when the present good was all in all to Kirstie; he must talk and talk lamely, as necessity drove him of what was to be. Again and again he had touched on marriage; again and again been driven back into indistinctness by a memory of Lord Hermiston.
I was present while Jopp was tried. It was a hideous business. Father, it was a hideous thing! Grant he was vile, why should you hunt him with a vileness equal to his own? It was done with glee that is the word you did it with glee; and I looked on, God help me! with horror." "You're a young gentleman that doesna approve of Caapital Punishment," said Hermiston.
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.
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