book_id int64 19 72.2k | title stringlengths 2 416 | sentence string |
|---|---|---|
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'll hae to bide here, to tak care o' every thing; and an aliment will be alloot to me for keeping poor Watty. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Hegh Sirs! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Wha would hae thought it, that sic a fine lad as he ance was, and preferred by his honest father as the best able to keep the property right, would thus hae been, by decreet o' court, proven a born idiot?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But,' interrupted Mrs. Milrookit, glancing compassionately towards her sister-in-law, 'I think, since so little change is to be made, that ye might just as weel let Bell and her bairns bide wi' you--for my grandmother's income is little enough for her ain wants, now that she's in a manner bedrid.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'It's easy for you, Meg, to speak,' replied her mother;--'but if ye had an experiment o' the heavy handfu' they hae been to me, ye would hae mair compassion for your mother. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | It's surely a dispensation sair enough, to hae the grief and heart-breaking sight before my eyes of a demented lad, that was so long a comfort to me in my widowhood. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But it's the Lord's will, and I maun bend the knee o' resignation.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Is't your intent, Mr. George,' said the Laird o' Dirdumwhamle, 'to mak any division o' what lying money there may hae been saved since your father's death?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I suspect there will not be enough to defray the costs of the process,' replied George; 'and if any balance should remain, the house really stands so much in need of repair, that I am persuaded there will not be a farthing left.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ''Deed,' said the Leddy, 'what he says, Mr. Milrookit, is oure true; the house is in a frail condition, for it was like pu'ing the teeth out o' the head o' Watty to get him to do what was needful.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I think,' replied the Laird o' Dirdumwhamle, 'that since ye hae so soon come to the property, Mr. George, and no likelihood o' any molestation in the possession, that ye might let us a' share and share alike o' the gethering, and be at the outlay o' the repairs frae the rental.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | To this suggestion Mr. George, however, replied, 'It will be time enough to consider that, when the law expenses are paid.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'They'll be a heavy soom, Mr. Milrookit,' said the Leddy; 'weel do I ken frae my father's pleas what it is to pay law expenses. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The like o' Mr. Pitwinnoch there, and Mr. Keelevin, are men o' moderation and commonality in their charges--but yon awfu' folk wi' the cloaks o' darkness and the wigs o' wisdom frae Edinbro'--they are costly commodities.--But now that we're a' met here, I think it would be just as weel an we war to settle at ance what I'm to hae, as the judicious curator o' Watty--for, by course o' law and nature, the aliment will begin frae this day.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Yes,' replied George, 'I think it will be just as well; and I'm glad, mother, that you have mentioned it. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | What is your opinion, Mr. Milrookit, as to the amount that she should have?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'All things considered,' replied the Laird of Dirdumwhamle, prospectively contemplating some chance of a reversionary interest to his wife in the Leddy's savings, 'I think you ought not to make it less than a hundred pounds a year.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'A hundred pounds a year!' exclaimed the Leddy, 'that'll no buy saut to his kail. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I hope and expek no less than the whole half o' the rents; and they were last year weel on to four hunder.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I think,' said George to Mr. Pitwinnoch, 'I would not be justified to the Court were I to give any thing like that; but if you think I may, I can have no objection to comply with my mother's expectations.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Oh, Mr. Walkinshaw,' replied Gabriel, 'you are no at a' aware o' your responsibility,--you can do no such things. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Your brother has been found a _fatuus_, and, of course, entitled but to the plainest maintenance. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I think that you will hardly be permitted to allow his mother more than fifty pounds; if, indeed, so much.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Fifty pounds! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | fifty placks,' cried the indignant Leddy. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I'll let baith you and |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | the Sheriff ken |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'm no to be frauded o' my rights in that gait. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'll no faik a farthing o' a hundred and fifty.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'In that case, I fear,' said Gabriel, 'Mr. George will be obliged to seek another custodier for the _fatuus_, as assuredly, Mem, he'll ne'er be sanctioned to allow you any thing like that.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'If ye think sae,' interposed Mrs. Milrookit, compassionating the forlorn estate of her sister-in-law,--'I dare say Mrs. Charles will be content to take him at a very moderate rate.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Megsty me!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | exclaimed the Leddy. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Hae I been buying a pig in a pock like that? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Is't a possibility that he can be ta'en out o' my hands, and no reasonable allowance made to me at a'? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Surely, Mr. Pitwinnoch, surely, Geordie, this can never stand either by the laws of God or man.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I can assure you, Mrs. Walkinshaw,' replied the lawyer, 'that fifty pounds a-year is as much as I could venture to advise Mr. George to give; and seeing it is sae, you had as well agree to it at once.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I'll never agree to ony such thing. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'll gang intil Embro' mysel, and hae justice done me frae the Fifteen. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'll this very night consult Mr. Keelevin, who is a most just man, and o' a right partiality.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I hope, mother,' said George, 'that you and I will not cast out about this; and to end all debates, if ye like, we'll leave the aliment to be settled by Mr. Pitwinnoch and Mr. Keelevin.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Nothing can be fairer,' observed the Laird of Dirdumwhamle, in the hope Mr. Keelevin might be so wrought on as to insist that at least a hundred should be allowed; and after some further altercation, the Leddy grudgingly assented to this proposal. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But,' said Mrs. Milrookit, 'considering now the altered state of Watty's circumstances, I dinna discern how it is possible for my mother to uphold this house and the farm.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The Leddy looked a little aghast at this fearful intimation, while George replied,-- 'I have reflected on that, Margaret, and I am quite of your opinion; and, indeed, it is my intention, after the requisite repairs are done to the house, to flit my family; for I am in hopes the change of air will be advantageous to my wife's health.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The Leddy was thunderstruck, and unable to speak; but her eyes were eloquent with indignation. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Perhaps, after all, it would be as well for our mother,' continued George, 'to take up house at once in Glasgow; and as I mean to settle an annuity of fifty pounds on Mrs. Charles, they could not do better than all live together.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | All present but his mother applauded the liberality of George. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | To the young widow the intelligence of such a settlement was as fresh air to the captive; but before she could express her thankfulness, Leddy Grippy started up, and gave a tremendous stamp with her foot. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | She then resumed her seat, and appeared all at once calm and smiling; but it was a calm betokening no tranquillity, and a smile expressive of as little pleasure. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the course of a few seconds the hurricane burst forth, and alternately, with sobs and supplications, menaces, and knocking of nieves, and drumming with her feet, the hapless Leddy Grippy divulged and expatiated on the plots and devices of George. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But all was of no avail--her destiny was sealed; and long before Messrs. Keelevin and Pitwinnoch adjusted the amount of the allowance, which, after a great struggle on the part of the former, was settled at seventy-five pounds, she found herself under the painful necessity of taking a flat up a turnpike stair in Glasgow, for herself and the _fatuus_. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | CHAPTER LIX |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | For some time after the decision of Walter's fatuity, nothing important occurred in the history of the Grippy family. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | George pacified his own conscience, and gained the approbation of the world, by fulfilling the promise of settling fifty pounds per annum on his sister-in-law. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The house was enlarged and adorned, and the whole estate, under the ancient name of Kittlestonheugh, began to partake of that general spirit of improvement which was then gradually diffusing itself over the face of the west country. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the meantime, Mrs. Charles Walkinshaw, who had returned with her children to reside with their grandmother, found her situation comparatively comfortable; but an acute anxiety for the consequences that would ensue by the daily expected death of that gentlewoman, continued to thrill through her bosom, and chequer the sickly gleam of the uncertain sunshine that glimmered in her path. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | At last the old lady died, and she was reduced, as she had long foreseen, with her children, to the parsimonious annuity. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | As it was impossible for her to live in Glasgow, and educate her children, on so small a stipend, there, she retired to one of the neighbouring villages, where, in the family of the Reverend Mr. Eadie, the minister, she found that kind of quiet intelligent society which her feelings and her misfortunes required. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Mrs. Eadie was a Highland lady, and, according to the living chronicles of the region of clans and traditions, she was of scarcely less than illustrious birth. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But for the last attempt to restore the royal line of the Stuarts, she would, in all probability, have moved in a sphere more spacious and suitable to the splendour of her pedigree than the humble and narrow orbit of a country clergyman's wife. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Nor in her appearance did it seem that Nature and Fortune were agreed about her destiny; for the former had adorned her youth with the beauty, the virtues, and the dignity, which command admiration in the palace,--endowments but little consonant to the lowly duties of the rural manse. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | At the epoch of which we are now speaking she was supposed to have passed her fiftieth year; but something in her air and manner gave her the appearance of being older--a slight shade of melancholy, the pale cast of thought, lent sweetness to the benign composure of her countenance; and she was seldom seen without inspiring interest, and awakening sentiments of profound and reverential respect. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | She had lost her only daughter about a year before; and a son, her remaining child, a boy about ten years of age, was supposed to have inherited the malady which carried off his sister. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The anxiety which Mrs. Eadie, in consequence, felt as a mother, partly occasioned that mild sadness of complexion to which we have alluded; but there was still a deeper and more affecting cause. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Before the ruin of her father's fortune, by the part he took in the Rebellion, she was betrothed to a youth who united many of the best Lowland virtues with the gallantry and enthusiasm peculiar to the Highlanders of that period. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | It was believed that he had fallen in the fatal field of Culloden; and, after a long period of virgin widowhood on his account, she was induced, by the amiable manners and gentle virtues of Mr. Eadie, to consent to change her life. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | He was then tutor in the family of a relation, with whom, on her father's forfeiture and death, she had found an asylum,--and when he was presented to the parish of Camrachle, they were married. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The first seven years, from the date of their union, were spent in that temperate state of enjoyment which is the nearest to perfect happiness; during the course of which their two children were born. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In that time no symptom of the latent poison of the daughter's constitution appeared; but all around them, and in their prospects, was calm, and green, and mild, and prosperous. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the course of the summer of the eighth year, in consequence of an often repeated invitation, they went, at the meeting of the General Assembly, to which Mr. Eadie was returned a member, to spend a short time with a relation in Edinburgh, and among the strangers with whom they happened to meet at the houses of their friends were several from France, children and relations of some of those who had been out in the Forty-five. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | A young gentleman belonging to these expatrioted visitors, one evening interested Mrs. Eadie, to so great a degree, that she requested to be particularly introduced to him, and, in the course of conversation, she learnt that he was the son of her former lover, and that his father was still alive, and married to a French woman, his mother. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The shock which this discovery produced was so violent that she was obliged to leave the room, and falling afterwards into bad health, her singular beauty began to fade with premature decay. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Her husband, to whom she disclosed her grief, endeavoured to soften it by all the means and blandishments in his power; but it continued so long inveterate, that he yielded himself to the common weakness of our nature, and growing peevish at her sorrow, chided her melancholy till their domestic felicity was mournfully impaired. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Such was the state in which Mrs. Charles Walkinshaw found Mrs. Eadie at their first acquaintance; and the disappointments and shadows which had fallen on the hopes of her own youth, soon led to an intimate and sympathetic friendship between them, the influence of which contributed at once to alleviate their reciprocal griefs, and to have the effect of reviving, in some degree, the withered affections of the minister. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The gradual and irremediable progress of the consumption which preyed on his son, soon, however, claimed from that gentle and excellent man efforts of higher fortitude than he had before exerted, and from that inward exercise, and the sympathy which he felt for his wife's maternal solicitude, Mrs. Walkinshaw had the satisfaction, in the course of a year, to see their mutual confidence and cordiality restored. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But in the same period the boy died; and though the long foreseen event deeply affected his parents, it proved a fortunate occurrence to the widow. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | For the minister, to withdraw his reflections from the contemplation of his childless state, undertook the education of James, and Mrs. Eadie, partly from the same motives, but chiefly to enjoy the society of her friend, proposed to unite with her in the education of Mary. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'We cannot tell,' said she to Mrs. Walkinshaw, 'what her lot may be; but let us do our best to prepare her for the world, and leave her fortunes, as they ever must be, in the hands of Providence. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The penury and obscurity of her present condition ought to be no objection to bestowing on her all the accomplishments we have it in our power to give. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | How little likely was it, in my father's time, that I should have been in this comparative poverty, and yet, but for those acquirements, which were studied for brighter prospects, how dark and sad would often have been my residence in this sequestered village!' CHAPTER LX In the meantime, the fortunes of George, whom we now regard as the third Laird of Grippy, continued to flourish. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The estate rose in value, and his mercantile circumstances improved; but still the infirmities of his wife's health remained the same, and the want of a male heir was a craving void in his bosom, that no prosperity could supply. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The reflections, connected with this subject, were rendered the more afflicting, by the consideration, that, in the event of dying without a son, the estate would pass from his daughter to James, the son of his brother Charles--and the only consolation that he had to balance this was a hope that, perhaps, in time he might be able to bring to pass a marriage between them. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Accordingly, after a suspension of intercourse for several years, actuated by a perspective design of this kind, he, one afternoon, made his appearance in his own carriage, with his lady and daughter, at the door of Mrs. Charles' humble dwelling, in the village of Camrachle. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I am afraid,' said he, after they were all seated in her little parlour, the window of which was curtained without with honeysuckle and jessamine--and the grate filled with flowers;--'I am afraid, my dear sister, unless we occasionally renew our intercourse, that the intimacy will be lost between our families, which it ought to be the interest of friends to preserve. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Mrs. Walkinshaw and I have, therefore, come to request that you and the children will spend a few days with us at Kittlestonheugh, and if you do not object, we shall invite our mother and Walter to join you--you would be surprised to hear how much the poor fellow still dotes on the recollection of your Mary, as Betty Bodle, and bewails, because the law, as he says, has found him guilty of being daft, that he should not be allowed to see her.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | This visit and invitation were so unexpected, that even Mrs. Charles, who was of the most gentle and confiding nature, could not avoid suspecting they were dictated by some unexplained purpose; but adversity had long taught her that she was only as a reed in the world, and must stoop as the wind blew. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | She, therefore, readily agreed to spend a few days at the mansion-house, and the children, who were present, eagerly expressing a desire to see their uncle Walter, of whose indulgence and good nature they retained the liveliest recollection, it was arranged that, on the Monday following, the carriage should be sent for her and them, and that the Leddy and Walter should also be at Kittlestonheugh to meet them. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the evening after this occurrence, Mrs. Charles went to the manse, and communicated to the minister and Mrs. Eadie what had happened. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | They knew her story, and were partly acquainted with the history of the strange and infatuated Entail. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Like her, they believed that her family had been entirely cut off from the succession, and, like her too, they respected the liberality of George, in granting her the annuity, small as it was. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | His character, indeed, stood fair and honourable with the world; he was a partner in one of the most eminent concerns in the royal city; his birth and the family estate placed him in the first class of her sons and daughters, that stately class who, though entirely devoted to the pursuit of lucre, still held their heads high as ancestral gentry. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But after a suspension of intercourse for so long a period, so sudden a renewal of intimacy, and with a degree of cordiality never before evinced, naturally excited their wonder, and awakened their conjectures. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Mrs. Eadie, superior and high-minded herself, ascribed it to the best intentions. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Your brother-in-law,' said she, 'is feeling the generous influence of prosperity, and is sensible that it must redound to his personal advantage with the world to continue towards you, on an enlarged scale, that friendship which you have already experienced.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But the minister, who, from his humbler birth, and the necessity which it imposed on him to contemplate the movements of society from below, together with that acquired insight of the hidden workings of the heart, occasionally laid open in the confessional moments of contrition, when his assistance was required at the death-beds of his parishioners, appeared to entertain a different opinion. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I hope his kindness proceeds,' said he, 'from so good a source; but I should have been better satisfied had it run in a constant stream, and not, after such an entire occultation, burst forth so suddenly. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | It is either the result of considerations with respect to things already past, recently impressed upon him in some new manner, or springs from some sinister purpose that he has in view; and therefore, Mrs. Walkinshaw, though it may seem harsh in me to suggest so ill a return for such a demonstration of brotherly regard, I would advise you, on account of your children, to observe to what it tends.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the meantime, George, with his lady and daughter, had proceeded to his mother's residence in Virginia Street, to invite her and Walter to join Mrs. Charles and the children. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | His intercourse with her, after her domiciliation in the town had been established, was restored to the freest footing; for although, in the first instance, and in the most vehement manner, she declared, 'He had cheated her, and deprived Walter of his lawful senses; and that she ne'er would open her lips to him again,' he had, nevertheless, contrived to make his peace, by sending her presents, and paying her the most marked deference and respect; lamenting that the hard conditions of his situation as a trustee did not allow him to be in other respects more liberal. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.