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Alexander, there's a quarrel I have with Touris of Black Hill. I have no wish to make it up. He did me a wrong and is a sinner in many ways. But his sister is different. If you see her tell her that I aye liked her." "Would it make you happier to be reconciled to Mr. Touris?" "No, it would not! You were never a canting one, Alexander! Let that be. Anger is anger, and it's weakness to gainsay it!
But the laird looked with a kind of large gloom at the reflection of fire and candle in battered breastplate and morion and crossed pikes. Supper was brought in by two maids, Eppie and Phemie, and with them came old Lauchlinson, the butler. Mrs. Jardine placed herself behind the silver urn, and Mr. Touris was given the seat nearest the fire.
They esteemed themselves, and were esteemed, essential to the moral order. They are the dark and bitter extreme of justice, given power by the imagination.... Do you think that you know the chapter now?" Jamie achieved his recitation, and then was set to mathematics. The tutor's quill drove on across the page. He looked up. "Mr. Touris has come to Black Hill?"
Jamie and Alice worshiped interruptions. "He has twenty carriers bringing fine things all the time " "Mother is going to take me when she goes to see Mrs. Alison, his sister " "He is going to spend money and make friends " "Mother says Mrs. Alison was most bonny when she was young, but England may have spoiled her " "The minister told the laird that Mr. Touris put fifty pounds in the plate "
Touris, standing by the fire, warmed himself and took snuff. Strickland, who had left the hall, returned and placed her embroidery frame for Mrs. Jardine. "Is Alexander in yet?" "Not yet." She began to work in cross-stitch upon a wreath of tulips and roses. The tutor took his book and withdrew to the table and the candles thereon. The laird came and dropped his great form upon the settle.
Wad he make friends before he died with Mr. Touris of Black Hill with whom he had the great quarrel three years since? Eh, sirs! and he never set foot again in Touris House, nor Mr. Touris in his! Wad Mr. Jamie gae now to Edinburgh or on his travels, that had been at home sae lang because the laird wadna part with him?
The old of this countryside remember us, going here and there.... I used to think, 'If I had been living then, I would not have let those things happen! And I dreamed of taking coin, and of dropping the same coin into the hands that gave.... And so, the other having served your turn, Touris, you will change back to the true Kirk?" Mr.
"I am Whig and Presbyterian and I prefer God save King George! But I do not look for the world to end, whether for King George or King James. I did not have in mind just this public occasion." His tone was dry. Ian kept his gold-brown eyes upon him. "Tell me what you have heard from Black Hill." "I was there late in May. Mr. Touris learned at that time that you had quitted France."
It had come, after all, from Archibald Touris but Ian knew the influence behind that. Warburton presented his name to the Minister who dispensed King Louis's fund for Scots gentlemen concerned in the late attempt, losers of all, and now destitute in France. So much would come out of that! The two together waited upon monseigneur in whose coach they had once crossed the Seine.
Black Hill appeared before him, the dark pine and crag of the hill itself, and below that the house with its far-stretching, well-planted policy. He passed the gates, rode under the green elm boughs of the avenue, and was presently before the porch of the house. A man presented himself to take Black Alan. "Aye, sir, there's company. Mr. Touris and Mrs. Alison are with them in the gardens."
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