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But he died, and his paper died after him; and of all this grace, and tact, and courage, it must seem to our blind eyes as if there had come literally nothing. These three students sat, as I was saying, in the corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary.
Macbean; but Father John would not speak to a protestant, and used to scowl at the children when he met them, and then Mildred would seize Bernadine's hand and drag her past him quickly, because she hated to be scowled at; but Beth always stopped and made a face at him.
See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 27. The Charterhouse. Macbean was, on Lord Thurlow's nomination, admitted 'a poor brother of the Charterhouse. Ante, i. 187. Johnson, on Macbean's death on June 26, 1784, wrote: 'He was one of those who, as Swift says, stood as a screen between me and death. He has, I hope, made a good exchange. The quotation from Swift is found in the lines On the Death of Dr. Swift:
'Surely I shall not spend my whole life with my own total disapprobation . Mr. Macbean, whom I have mentioned more than once, as one of Johnson's humble friends, a deserving but unfortunate man, being now oppressed by age and poverty, Johnson solicited the Lord Chancellor Thurlow, to have him admitted into the Charterhouse.
MacBean driving would give him the mastery of the stroke and so enable him to win the match. In this I think he was a little sanguine.
"You have got the best of it," said MacBean, who rode up first to one friend amongst the officers and then to another, detailing information which he managed to pick up, he himself best knew how; but it was, as a rule, exceptionally correct. "The Highlanders, who marched out to the zereba yesterday in the heat, suffered awfully.
Amongst the losses of this day were Dorsetshire. Nine men killed; Captain Arnold, Lieutenant Hewitt, and thirty-nine men wounded. Gordon Highlanders. Lieutenant Lamont and two men killed; Colonel Mathias, Major Macbean, Captain Uniacke, Lieutenants Dingwall, Meiklejohn, Craufurd, and thirty-five men wounded. Derbyshire. Captain Smith and three men killed, eight wounded.
'An acquaintance, on whose veracity I can depend, told me, that walking home one evening to Kilmarnock, he heard himself called from a wood, by the voice of a brother who had gone to America; and the next packet brought accounts of that brother's death. Macbean asserted that this inexplicable calling was a thing very well known. Dr.
Doctor MacBean was a middle-aged man who liked the society of young ones because he had one little weakness: he was very fond of holding forth, and young men were more inclined to listen patiently to him than older ones. He was a naturalist, a sportsman, and had been a great traveller.
We would often smile at that ineloquent memorial and thought it a poor thing to come into the world at all and have no more behind one than Macbean. Their thoughts ran very differently on that December morning; they were all on fire with ambition; and when they had called me in to them, and made me a sharer in their design, I too became drunken with pride and hope.
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