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For whom you were ready to throw over one of the best and truest men that ever lived! For whom you really did drive Regulas Rothsay, on the proudest and happiest day of his life, into exile and death!" "Oh, don't! don't! grandfather! Don't!" wailed Cora, sinking on an office stool, and dropping her hands and head on the table. "Now, none of that, mistress. No hysterics, if you please.
As soon as the morning papers announced among other arrivals that of the new assemblyman, the Hon. Regulas Rothsay, Aaron Rockharrt sought out the young legislator, and explained that he wished to get a charter for a railroad that he wished to build. The company all responsible men had been incorporated some time, but he had never succeeded in getting a charter from the legislature.
You dare to drive him away from my house, grieved, disappointed, humiliated, to become a wanderer over the face of the earth for your sake, even as you drove Regulas Rothsay from the goal of his ambition into exile, and " A sharp cry from Corona suddenly stopped him in full career. "Do not, oh! do not speak of that! I I would have given my life to have prevented Rule's loss, if I could!
"I remember Regulas Rothsay or Rule, as we used to call him when he was a little bit of a fellow hardly up to my knee, running about bare-footed and doing odd jobs round the foundry. Ah! and now he is elected governor of this State by the biggest majority ever heard of, and engaged to be married to the finest young lady in the country, with the full consent of all her proud relations.
Perhaps the tiny lady had some faint idea of the duties and responsibilities of wealth and station. So she spoke to the boy. "Are you Regulas Rothsay?" she inquired, in a soft tone. "Yes, miss," replied the boy. There was an awkward pause, and then the little girl said slowly: "You won't let anybody give you anything, although you have no father nor mother. Now, why won't you?"
Regulas, with his sturdy independence of spirit, would most likely have declined this favor had not the girl's beseeching face and voice persuaded him to accept it. "I thank you very much, sir," he said, and promptly climbed to the seat.
After this Regulas Rothsay came often and more often, until at length he passed every evening with the Rockharrts when they were at home. Old Aaron Rockharrt esteemed him as he esteemed very, very few of his fellow creatures. Mrs. Rockharrt really loved him. Mr. Fabian and Mr. Clarence liked him. Cora admired and honored him.
Experiebatur acerba dissidia, ingeniorumque subtilissimorum acerrima certamina, odia, ambitiones, inde cieri, foveri; adeo contraria paci cum Deo et homine. Horrebat inde dominantis sectae praevalentem opinionem, orthodoxiae modum, et regulas, unice dare juxta dictata metaphysicorum, non sacrarum literarum; unde tam variae; sententiae de doctrina simplicissima." Orig. Edit.
And now he is going to marry his first love to-day, and to take his seat as governor to-morrow," continued the matron, with a little chuckle. "Regulas Rothsay will never take his seat as governor," spoke a solemn voice from the thicket on the right of the road along which the party were walking to the scene of the grand wedding.
"Because, dear, from the time I left the State capital to this day I have never seen a newspaper or spoken to a civilized being." "Rule!" "It is true, dear! Look at me. Have I not degenerated into a savage?" "No, no, no, Regulas Rothsay! you could never do that! Ah! how much nobler you look to me in that rude forest garb than ever in the fine dress of the drawing room!
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