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He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling perhaps on the morrow in the very height of his passions. And yet, after the scene between Arthur and himself, he saw cause to fear that he might not be able to exercise a sufficient authority over his son, however naturally facile and obedient, to prevent his return to the house of death.
The time employed by Mr. Beaufort in reaching his home was haunted by gloomy and confused terrors. He felt inexplicably as if the denunciations of Philip were to visit less himself than his son. He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling perhaps on the morrow in the very height of his passions.
There was a favorite honeysuckle which I had seen her often training with assiduity, and had heard her say it should be the pride of her garden. I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness. I could work no longer in the garden.
"How, base-torn and craven limbed!" cried the eldest, who had been a noted warrior in his day; "darest thou enter unsummoned amidst the secret councils of the wise men? Knowest thou not, scatterling! that the penalty is death?" "Slay me, if thou wilt," answered Morven "but hear!
I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for- nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. I took the air in gay carriages, I such a scapegrace; and you, little child, you so good! All gone, all melted away from me, and not able now to be sure that you will have a crust of bread this day week." "Oh, yes!
The four who lived there "Bat and Zilpic, Maunder and Insie, of the Gill" had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor.
Hartopp, therefore, had taken, from the first moment, to Waife, the staid, respectable, thriving man, all muffled up from head to foot in the whitest lawn of reputation, to the wandering, shifty, tricksome scatterling, who had not seemingly secured, through the course of a life bordering upon age, a single certificate for good conduct.
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