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Miss Urquhart's feelings, when she realised the fact that one of the Pennycuicks was committed to marry a draper, expressed themselves at first in a rather chilling silence. But subsequently, having reviewed the situation from its several sides, and weighed the pros and cons, she decided to assist her friend to make the best of it, as against all potential enemies.
Which was the more flagrant indecency that he, young Margerison of the lower fourth, should, without any encouragement whatever, have asked Urquhart of the sixth, captain of the fifteen, head of his house, to come and stay with him; or that his near relative should have pressed half-a-crown into the great Urquhart's hand as if he expected him to go forthwith to the tuck-shop at the corner and buy tarts?
"How did you come to get him?" said the colonel, moved to interest by Urquhart's unwonted praise. "Indeed, just the way we've got all our best men. It's the boss picked him oot o' the gutter, and there he is earnin' his twa and a half a day." "The boss did that, eh?" said the colonel, with one of his swift glances at the speaker. "Aye, that he did, and he's only one o' many."
Urquhart's eyes met his with an extenuating look. "It was some time ago, you see," he said; and then, passing it off, "There are as many as you like out there. Dozens." Lancelot absorbed this explanation through the eyes. You could see them at it, chewing it like a cud. He was engrossed in it Lucy watched him.
Mackenzie, but neither to regret him nor to speculate on the mystery which closed his career, and which, now that death had sealed Mr. Urquhart's lips, I could no longer hope to penetrate, when, on the day of my return to Inverness, I was reminded of him by finding, among the letters and papers awaiting me, a visiting-card neatly indited with the name of the Reverend Samuel Saul.
But if he could have known or if she had cared to tell him what she had been thinking of on Sunday afternoon when Francis purred to her about himself and sought her advice how best to use his ten thousand of Urquhart's pounds well, James would have understood, that's all! So she laughed. "Poor Francis Lingen! He is not very wise. But I must say that your honour is perfectly safe with me."
What, after all, was it to a hero that the family circle of an obscure individual such as he should have momentarily intersected the hero's own orbit? School has this distinction families take a back place; one is judged on one's own individual merits. Peter's arm did not recover so soon as Urquhart's sanguineness had predicted.
After a little while, Urquhart was justified in his supposition; it was characteristic of Peter to convert, as promptly as was feasible, any slight error of Urquhart's into truth. So Peter knew nothing when Urquhart carried him indoors and delivered him into other hands.
But speech is absurd. Why, every phrase, and nearly every word, has a conventional value." By touch! She was set dreaming by that. So she and James a James she had had no conception of had communicated not four-and-twenty hours ago. Certainly subsequent speech had not advanced the intelligence then conveyed. But she resumed Urquhart's affairs.
"The bad character of the white servants is a reason assigned by many settlers for keeping the natives from their stations. At a few establishments, viz. Norman M'Leod's, Baillie's, Campbell's, Lenton's, and Urquhart's, an amicable and friendly relation has been maintained for several years; the Aborigines are employed and found useful.
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