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44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | It may be that I am ungrateful; if so, as I can never feel otherwise upon the subject than I do, send me away, as unworthy longer to share your favour; but worthy I shall nevertheless be of something still better.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Young man, you will be more reasonable to-morrow,' said his uncle, contemptuously, and immediately left the room. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Walkinshaw at the same moment also took his hat, and, rushing towards the door, quitted the house; but in turning suddenly round the corner, he ran against Robina, who, having some idea of the object of his visit, had been listening at the window to their conversation. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | CHAPTER LXVIII The agitation in which Walkinshaw was at the moment when he encountered Robina, prevented him from being surprised at meeting her, and also from suspecting the cause which had taken her to that particular place so late in the evening. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The young lady was more cool and collected, as we believe young ladies always are on such occasions, and she was the first who spoke. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Where are you running so fast?' said she. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I thought you would have stayed tea. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Will you not go back with me? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | My mother expects you.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Your father does not,' replied Walkinshaw tersely; 'and I wish it had been my fortune never to have set my foot within his door.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Dear me!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | exclaimed Miss Robina, as artfully as if she had known nothing, nor overheard every word which had passed. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'What has happened? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I hope nothing has occurred to occasion any quarrel between you. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Do think, James, how prejudicial it must be to your interests to quarrel with my father.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Curse that eternal word "interests"!' was the unceremonious answer. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Your father seems to think that human beings have nothing but interests; that the heart keeps a ledger, and values everything in pounds sterling. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Our best affections, our dearest feelings, are with him only as tare, that should pass for nothing in the weight of moral obligations.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But stop,' said Robina, 'don't be in such a hurry; tell me what all this means--what has affections and dear feelings to do with your counting-house affairs?--I thought you and he never spoke of anything but rum puncheons and sugar cargoes.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'He is incapable of knowing the value of anything less tangible and vendible!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | exclaimed her |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | cousin--'but I have done with both him and you.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Me!' cried Miss Robina, with an accent of the most innocent admiration, that any sly and shrewd miss of eighteen could possibly assume.--'Me! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | what have I to do with your hopes and your affections, and your tangible and vendible commodities?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I beg your pardon, I meant no offence to you, Robina--I am overborne by my feelings,' said Walkinshaw; 'and if you knew what has passed, you would sympathize with me.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But as I do not,' replied the young lady coolly, 'you must allow me to say that your behaviour appears to me very extravagant--surely nothing has passed between you and my father that I may not know?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | This was said in a manner that instantly recalled Walkinshaw to his senses. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The deep and cunning character of his cousin he had often before remarked--with, we may say plainly, aversion--and he detected at once in the hollow and sonorous affectation of sympathy with which her voice was tuned, particularly in the latter clause of the sentence, the insincerity and hypocrisy of her conduct.--He did not, however, suspect that she had been playing the eavesdropper; and, therefore, still tempered with moderation his expression of the sentiments she was so ingeniously leading him on to declare. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'No,' said he, calmly, 'nothing has passed between your father and me that you may not know, but it will come more properly from him, for it concerns you, and in a manner that I can never take interest or part in.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Concerns me! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | concerns me!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | exclaimed the actress; 'it is impossible that anything of mine could occasion a misunderstanding between you.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But it has,' said Walkinshaw; 'and to deal with you, Robina, as you ought to be dealt with, for affecting to be so ignorant of your father's long-evident wishes and intents--he has actually declared that he is most anxious we should be married.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I can see no harm in that,' said she, adding dryly, 'provided it is not to one another.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But it is to one another,' said Walkinshaw, unguardedly, and in the simplicity of earnestness, which Miss perceiving, instantly with the adroitness of her sex turned to account--saying with well-feigned diffidence,-- 'I do not see why that should be so distressing to you.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'No!' replied he. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But the thing can never be, and it is of no use for us to talk of it--so good night.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Stay,' cried Robina,--'what you have told me deserves consideration.--Surely I have given you no reason to suppose that in a matter so important, I may not find it my interest to comply with my father's wishes.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Heavens!' exclaimed Walkinshaw, raising his clenched hands in a transport to the skies. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Why are you so vehement?' said Robina. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Because,' replied he solemnly, 'interest seems the everlasting consideration of our family--interest disinherited my father--interest made my uncle Walter consign my mother to poverty--interest proved the poor repentant wretch insane--interest claims the extinction of all I hold most precious in life--and interest would make me baser than the most sordid of all our sordid race.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Then I am to understand you dislike me so much, that you have refused to accede to my father's wishes for our mutual happiness?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'For our mutual misery, I have refused to accede,' was the abrupt reply--'and if you had not some motive for appearing to feel otherwise--which motive I neither can penetrate nor desire to know, you would be as resolute in your objection to the bargain as I am--match I cannot call it, for it proceeds in a total oblivion of all that can endear or ennoble such a permanent connexion.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Miss was conscious of the truth of this observation, and with all her innate address, it threw her off her guard, and she said,-- 'Why do you suppose that I am so insensible? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | My father may intend what he pleases, but my consent must be obtained before he can complete his intentions.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | She had, however, scarcely said so much, when she perceived she was losing the vantage-ground that she had so dexterously occupied, and she turned briskly round and added, 'But, James, why should we fall out about this?--there is time enough before us to consider the subject dispassionately--my father cannot mean that the marriage should take place immediately.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Robina, you are your father's daughter, and the heiress of his nature as well as of his estate--no such marriage ever can or shall take place; nor do you wish it should--but I am going too far--it is enough that I declare my affections irrevocably engaged, and that I will never listen to a second proposition on that subject, which has to-night driven me wild. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I have quitted your father--I intend it for ever--I will never return to his office. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | All that I built on my connexion with him is now thrown down--perhaps with it my happiness is also lost--but no matter, I cannot be a dealer in such bargaining as I have heard to-night. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I am thankful to Providence that gave me a heart to feel better, and friends who taught me to think more nobly. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | However, I waste my breath and spirits idly; my resolution is fixed, and when I say Good night, I mean Farewell.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | With these words he hurried away, and, after walking a short time on the lawn, Robina returned into the house; and going up to her mother's apartment, where her father was sitting, she appeared as unconcerned and unconscious of the two preceding conversations, as if she had neither been a listener to the one, nor an actress in the other. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | On entering the room, she perceived that her father had been mentioning to her mother something of what had passed between himself and her cousin; but it was her interest, on account of the direction which her affections had taken, to appear ignorant of many things, and studiously to avoid any topic with her father that might lead him to suspect her bent; for she had often observed, that few individuals could be proposed to him as a match for her that he entertained so strong a prejudice against; although really, in point of appearance, relationship, and behaviour, it could hardly be said that the object of her preference was much inferior to her romantic cousin. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The sources and motives of that prejudice she was, however, regardless of discovering. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | She considered it in fact as an unreasonable and unaccountable antipathy, and was only anxious for the removal of any cause that might impede the consummation she devoutly wished. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Glad, therefore, to be so fully mistress of Walkinshaw's sentiments as she had that night made herself, she thought, by a judicious management of her knowledge, she might overcome her father's prejudice;--and the address and dexterity with which she tried this we shall attempt to describe in the following chapter. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | CHAPTER LXIX ' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I thought,' said she, after seating herself at the tea-table, 'that my cousin would have stopped to-night; but I understand he has gone away.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Perhaps,' replied her father, 'had you requested him, he might have stayed!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I don't think he would for me,' was her answer.--'He does not appear particularly satisfied when I attempt to interfere with any of his proceedings.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Then you do sometimes attempt to interfere?' said her father, somewhat surprised at the observation, and not suspecting that she had heard one word of what had passed, every syllable of which was carefully stored in the treasury of her bosom. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The young lady perceived that she was proceeding a little too quickly, and drew in her horns. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'All,' said she, 'that I meant to remark was, that he is not very tractable, which I regret;' and she contrived to give a sigh. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Why should you regret it so particularly?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | inquired her father, a little struck at the peculiar accent with which she had expressed herself. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I cannot tell,' was her adroit reply; and then she added, in a brisker tone,--'But I wonder what business I have to trouble myself about him?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | For some time her father made no return to this; but, pushing back his chair from the tea-table till he had reached the chimney-corner, he leant his elbow on the mantelpiece, and appeared for several minutes in a state of profound abstraction. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the meantime, Mrs. Walkinshaw had continued the conversation with her daughter, observing to her that she did, indeed, think her cousin must be a very headstrong lad; for he had spoken that night to her father in such a manner as had not only astonished but distressed him. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'However,' said she,--'he is still a mere boy; and, I doubt not, will, before long is past, think better of what his uncle has been telling him.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I am extremely sorry,' replied Robina, with the very voice of the most artless sympathy, though, perhaps, a little more accentuated than simplicity would have employed--'I am very sorry, indeed, that any difference has arisen between him and my father. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I am sure I have always heard him spoken of as an amiable and very deserving young man. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I trust it is of no particular consequence.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'It is of the utmost consequence,' interposed her father; 'and it is of more to you than to any other besides.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'To me, Sir! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | how is that possible?--What have I to do with him, or he with me? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I am sure, except in being more deficient in his civilities than those of most of my acquaintance, I have had no occasion to remark anything particular in his behaviour or conduct towards me.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I know it--I know it,' exclaimed her father; 'and therein lies the source of all my anxiety.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I fear that I do not rightly understand you,' said the cunning girl. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Nor do I almost wish that you ever should; but, nevertheless, my heart is so intent on the business, that I think, were you to second my endeavours, the scheme might be accomplished.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'The scheme?--What scheme?' replied the most unaffected Robina. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'In a word, child,' said her father, 'how would you like James as a husband?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'How can I tell?' was her simple answer. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'He has never given me any reason to think on the subject.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'You cannot, however, but long have seen that it was with me a favourite object?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I confess it;--and, perhaps, I have myself,' she said, with a second sigh--'thought more of it than I ought to have done; but I have never had any encouragement from him.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'How unhappy am I,' thought her father to himself--'The poor thing is as much disposed to the match as my heart could hope for.--Surely, surely, by a little address and perseverance, the romantic boy may be brought to reason and to reflect;' and he then said to her--'My dear Robina, you have been the subject of my conversation with James this evening; but I am grieved to say, that his sentiments, at present, are neither favourable to your wishes nor to mine.--He seems enchanted by Mrs. Eadie's relation, and talked so much nonsense on the subject that we almost quarrelled.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I shall never accept of a divided heart,' said the young lady despondingly; 'and I entreat, my dear father, that you will never take another step in the business; for, as long as I can recollect, he has viewed me with eyes of aversion--and in all that time he has been the playmate, and the lover, perhaps, of Ellen Frazer.--Again I implore you to abandon every idea of promoting a union between him and me: It can never take place on his part but from the most sordid considerations of interest; nor on mine without feeling that I have been but as a bale bargained for.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Her father listened with attention to what she said--it appeared reasonable--it was spirited; but there was something, nevertheless, in it which did not quite satisfy his mind, though the sense was clear and complete. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Of course,' he replied, guardedly; 'I should never require you to bestow your hand where you had not already given your affections; but it does not follow that because the headstrong boy is at this time taken up with Miss Frazer, that he is always to remain of the same mind. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | On the contrary, Robina, were you to exert a little address, I am sure you would soon draw him from that unfortunate attachment.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'What woman,' said she, with an air of supreme dignity, 'would submit to pilfer the betrothed affections of any man? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | No, sir, I cannot do that--nor ought I; and pardon me when I use the expression, nor will I. Had my cousin made himself more agreeable to me, I do not say that such would have been my sentiments; but having seen nothing in his behaviour that can lead me to hope from him anything but the same constancy in his dislike which I have ever experienced, I should think myself base, indeed, were I to allow you to expect that I may alter my opinion.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Nothing further passed at that time; for to leave the impression which she intended to produce as strong as possible, she immediately rose and left the room. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Her father soon after also quitted his seat, and after taking two or three turns across the floor, went to his own apartment. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I am the most unfortunate of men,' said he to himself, 'and my poor Robina is no less frustrated in her affections. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I cannot, however, believe that the boy is so entirely destitute of prudence as not to think of what I have told him. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I must give him time. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Old heads do not grow on young shoulders. |
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