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44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The considerations and reflections to which this conclusion naturally gave rise, held her for some time silent. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The moment, however, that Walkinshaw, encouraged by the seeming slightness of her regret at his declamations against the match, proceeded to a fuller disclosure of his sentiments, and to intimate his resolution to go abroad, her maternal fears were startled, and she was plunged into the profoundest sorrow. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But still during breakfast she said nothing--misfortune and disappointment had indeed so long subdued her gentle spirit into the most patient resignation, that, while her soul quivered in all its tenderest feelings, she seldom even sighed, but, with a pale cheek and a meek supplication, expressed only by a heavenward look of her mild and melancholy eyes, she seemed to say, 'Alas! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | am I still doomed to suffer?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | That look was ever irresistible with her children: in their very childhood it brought them, with all their artless and innocent caresses, to her bosom; and, on this occasion, it so penetrated the very core of Walkinshaw's heart, that he took her by the hand and burst into tears. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | CHAPTER LXXII We are no casuists, and therefore cannot undertake to determine whether Jenny did right or wrong in marrying Auld Robin Gray for the sake of her poor father and mother; especially as it has been ever held by the most approved moralists, that there are principles to be abided by, even at the expense of great and incontrovertible duties. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But of this we are quite certain, that there are few trials to which the generous heart can be subjected more severe than a contest between its duties and its affections--between the claims which others have upon the conduct of the man for their advantage, and the desires that he has himself to seek his own gratification. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In this predicament stood young Walkinshaw; and at the moment when he took his mother by the hand, the claims of filial duty were undoubtedly preferred to the wishes of love. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I am,' said he, 'at your disposal, mother--do with me as you think fit.--When I resented the mean opinion that my uncle seemed to hold of me, I forgot you--I thought only of myself. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | My first duties, I now feel, are due to the world, and the highest of them to my family.--But I wish that I had never known Ellen Frazer.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'In that wish, my dear boy, you teach me what I ought myself to do.--No, James, I can never desire nor expect that my children will sacrifice themselves for me--for I regard it as no less than immolation when the heart revolts at the tasks which the hand performs. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But my life has long been one continued sorrow; and it is natural that I should shrink at the approach of another and a darker cloud. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I will not, however, ask you to remain with your uncle, nor even oppose your resolution to go abroad. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But be not precipitate--consider the grief, the anxieties, and the humiliations, that both your father and I have endured, and think, were you united to Ellen Frazer, supposing her father and friends would consent to so unequal a match, what would be her fate were you cut early off, as your father was?--It is the thought of that--of what I myself, with you and for you, have borne, which weighs so grievously at this moment on my spirits.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Do you wish me to return to Glasgow?' said Walkinshaw with an anxious and agitated voice. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Not unless you feel yourself that you can do so without humiliation--for bitter, James, as my cup has been, and ill able as I am to wrestle with the blast, I will never counsel child of mine to do that which may lessen him in his own opinion. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Heaven knows that there are mortifications ready enough in the world to humble us--we do not need to make any for ourselves--no, unless you can meet your uncle with a frank face and a free heart, do not return.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I am sure, then, that I never can,' replied Walkinshaw. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I feel as if he had insulted my nature, by venturing to express what he seems to think of me; and a man can forgive almost any injury but a mean opinion of him.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But if you do not go to him, perhaps you will not find it difficult to obtain a situation in another counting-house?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'If I am not to return to his, I would rather at once leave the place--I never liked it, and I shall now like it less than ever. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In a word, my intention is to go, if possible, to America.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Go where you will, my blessing and tears is all, my dear boy, that I can give you.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Then you approve of my wish to go to America?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I do not object to it, James--It is a difficult thing for a mother to say that she approves of her son exposing himself to any hazard.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'What would you have said, could I have obtained a commission in the army and a war raging?' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Just what I say now--nor should I have felt more sorrow in seeing you go to a campaign than I shall feel when you leave me to encounter the yet to you untried perils of the world. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Indeed, I may say, I should almost feel less, for in the army, with all its hazard, there is a certain degree of assurance, that a young man, if he lives, will be fashioned into an honourable character.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I wish that there was a war,' said Walkinshaw with such sincere simplicity, that even his mother could scarcely refrain from smiling. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The conversation was, at this juncture, interrupted by the entrance of Mrs. Eadie, who immediately perceived that something particular had occurred to disturb the tranquillity of her friend, and, for a moment, she looked at Walkinshaw with an austere and majestic eye. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | His mother observed the severity of her aspect, and thought it as well at once to mention what had happened. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Mrs. Eadie listened to the recital of his uncle's proposal, and his resolution to go abroad, with a degree of juridical serenity, that lent almost as much solemnity to her appearance as it derived dignity from her august form; and, when Mrs. Walkinshaw concluded, she said,-- 'We have foreseen all this--and I am only surprised that now, when it has come to pass, it should affect you so much. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I dreamt, last night, Mrs. Walkinshaw, that you were dead, and laid out in your winding-sheet. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I thought I was sitting beside the corpse, and that, though I was sorrowful, I was, nevertheless, strangely pleased. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In that moment, my cousin, Glengael, came into the room, and he had a large ancient book, with brazen clasps on it, under his arm. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | That book he gave to Ellen Frazer, whom I then saw was also in the room, and she undid the brazen clasps, and opening it, showed her father a particular passage, which he read aloud, and, when he paused, I saw you rise, and, throwing aside the winding-sheet, you appeared richly dressed, with a cheerful countenance, and on your hands were wedding-gloves. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | It was to tell you this auspicious dream that I came here this morning, and I have no doubt it betokens some happy change in your fortunes, to come by the agency of Glengael. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Therefore, give yourself no uneasiness about this difference between James and his uncle; for, you may rest assured, it will terminate in some great good to your family; but there will be a death first, that's certain.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Although Walkinshaw was familiar with the occasional gleams of the sibilline pretensions of Mrs. Eadie, and always treated them with reverence, he could not resist from smiling at the earnestness with which she delivered her prediction, saying, 'But I do not see in what way the dream has anything to do with my case.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'You do not see,' replied the Leddy sternly, 'nor do I see; but it does not, therefore, follow, that there is no sympathy between them. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The wheels of the world work in darkness, James, and it requires the sight of the seer to discern what is coming round, though the auguries of their index are visible to all eyes. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But,' and she turned to Mrs. Walkinshaw, 'it strikes me, that, in the present state of your circumstances, I might write to my cousin. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | The possession of Glengael gives him weight with Government, and, perhaps, his influence might be of use to your son.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | This afforded a ray of hope to Walkinshaw, of which he had never entertained the slightest notion, and it also, in some degree, lightened the spirits of his mother. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | They both expressed their sense of her kindness; and James said gaily, that he had no doubt the omens of her dream would soon be verified; but she replied solemnly,-- 'No! though Glengael may be able, by his interest, to serve you, the agency of death can alone fulfil the vision; but, for the present, let us say no more on that head. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I will write to-day to Mr. Frazer, and inquire in what way he can best assist all our wishes.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | In the meantime, the Leddy had been informed by her maid of Walkinshaw's early departure for Camrachle; and, in consequence, as soon as she had breakfasted, a messenger was dispatched to the counting-house, to request that the Laird might be sent to her when he came to town; but this was unnecessary, for he had scarcely passed a more tranquil night than his nephew; and, before her messenger came back, he was in the parlour with Robina, whom he had brought with him in the carriage to spend the day with one of her friends. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Why the young lady should have chosen so unpleasant a day for her visit, particularly as it was a volunteer, and had been, as she said, only concerted with herself after the conversation of the preceding evening, we must allow the sagacity of the reader to discover; but she appeared flurried, and put out of countenance, when her grandmother told her, that she expected Dirdumwhamle and Mrs. Milrookit to dinner, and 'I think,' said she, 'Beenie, that ye ought to bide wi' me to meet them, for I expect Walky'--so she styled Walkinshaw, their son; 'and if ye're no to get the ae cousin, I dinna see but ye might set your cap for the other.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'I trust and hope,' exclaimed the Laird, 'that she has more sense. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Walkinshaw Milrookit has nothing.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | And what has Jamie Walkinshaw?' said the Leddy. '' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Deed, Geordie, though I canna but say ye're baith pawky and auld farrant, it's no to be controverted that ye hae gotten your father's bee in the bonnet, anent ancestors and forbears, and nae gude can come out o' ony sic havers. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Beenie, my Leddy, ne'er fash your head wi' your father's dodrums; but, an ye can hook Walky's heart wi' the tail o' your ee, ye's no want my helping hand at the fishing.' 'Mother,' said George vehemently, 'I am astonished that you can talk so lightly to the girl. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I have my own reasons for being most decidedly averse to any such union. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | And though I do feel that James has used me ill, and that his headstrong conduct deserves my severest displeasure, I not only think it a duty to bring about a marriage between Robina and him, but will endeavour to act in it as such. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Perhaps, had she been entirely free, I might have felt less interest in the business; but knowing, as I now do, that his coldness alone has prevented her from cherishing towards him a just and proper affection, I should be wanting in my obligations as a father, were I not to labour, by all expedient means, to promote the happiness of my child.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | During this speech the young lady appeared both out of countenance and inwardly amused, while her grandmother, placing her hands to her sides, looked at her with a queer and inquisitive eye, and said,-- 'It's no possible, Beenie Walkinshaw, that thou's sic a masquerading cutty as to hae beguilt baith thy father and me? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But, if ever I had an e'e in my head, and could see wi' that e'e, it's as true as the deil's in Dublin city, that I hae had a discernment o' thy heart-hatred to Jamie Walkinshaw. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But let your father rin to the woody as he will--they're no to be born that 'ill live to see that I hae a judgement and an understanding o' what's what. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Howsever, Geordie, what's to be done wi' that ne'er-do-well water-wag-tail that's flown awa to its mother? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Poor woman, she canna afford to gie't drammock. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Something maun be done, and wi' your wis' for a fresh clecking of the pedigrees o' the Walkinshaws o' Kittlestonheugh, that I hae been sae lang deaved and driven doited wi'; "for the space of forty years," I may say, in the words of the Psalmist, "the race hae grieved me." |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Ye canna do better than just tak a hurl in your chaise to Camrachle, and bring him in by the lug and horn, and nail him to the desk wi' a pin to his nose.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | There was worse advice, the Laird thought, than this; and, after some further remarks to the same effect, he really did set off for Camrachle with the express intention of doing everything in his power to heal the breach, and to conciliate again the affection and gratitude of his nephew. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | CHAPTER LXXIII As soon as the carriage had left the door, the Leddy resumed the conversation with her granddaughter. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Noo, Beenie Walkinshaw,' said she, 'I maun put you to the straights o' a question. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Ye'll no tell me, lassie, that ye hae na flung stoor in your father's een, after the converse that we had thegither by oursels the other day; therefore and accordingly, I requeesht to know, what's at the bottom o' this black art and glamour that ye hae been guilty o'?--whatna scamp or hempy is't that the cutty has been gallanting wi', that she's trying to cast the glaiks in a' our een for?--Wha is't?--I insist to know--for ye'll ne'er gar me believe that there's no a because for your jookery pawkrie.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'You said,' replied Miss, half blushing, half laughing, 'that you would lend a helping hand to me with Walkinshaw Milrookit.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Eh! Megsty me! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I'm sparrow-blasted!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | exclaimed the Leddy, throwing herself back in the chair, and lifting both her hands and eyes in wonderment.--'But thou, Beenie Walkinshaw, is a soople fairy; and so a' the time that thy father,--as blin' as the silly blin' bodie that his wife gart believe her gallant's horse was a milch cow sent frae her minny,--was wising and wyling to bring about a matrimony, or, as I should ca't, a matter-o'-money conjugality wi' your cousin Jamie, hae ye been linking by the dyke-sides, out o' sight, wi' Walky Milrookit? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Weel, that beats print! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Whatna novelle gied you that lesson, lassie? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Hech sirs! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | auld as I am, but I would like to read it. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Howsever, Beenie, as the ae oe's as sib to me as the ither, I'll be as gude as my word; and when Dirdumwhamle and your aunty, wi' your joe, are here the day, we'll just lay our heads thegither for a purpose o' marriage, and let your father play the Scotch measure or shantruse, wi' the bellows and the shank o' the besom, to some warlock wallop o' his auld papistical and paternostering ancestors, that hae been--Gude preserve us!--for aught I ken to the contrary, suppin' brimstone broth wi' the deil lang afore the time o' Adam and Eve. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Methuselah himself, I verily believe, could be naething less than half a cousin to the nine hundred and ninety-ninth Walkinshaw o' Kittlestonheugh. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Howsever, Beenie, thou's a--thou's a--I'll |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | no say what--ye little dooble cutty, to keep me in the dark, when I could hae gi'en you and Walky sae muckle convenience for courting. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But, for a' that, I'll no be devoid o' grace, but act the part of a kind and affectionate grandmother, as it is well known I hae ay been to a' my bairns' childer; only I never thought to hae had a finger in the pye o' a Clarissy Harlot wedding.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But,' said Robina, 'what if my father should succeed in persuading James still to fall in with his wishes? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | My situation will be dreadful.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | ''Deed, an that come to a possibility, I ken na what's to be done,' replied the Leddy; 'for ye know it will behove me to tak my ain son, your father's part; and as I was saying, Jamie Walkinshaw being as dear to me as Walky Milrookit, I can do no less than help you to him, which need be a matter of no diffeequalty, 'cause ye hae gart your father trow that ye're out o' the body for Jamie; so, as I said before, ye maun just conform.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Miss looked aghast for a moment, and exclaimed, clasping her hands, at finding the total contempt with which her grandmother seemed to consider her affections,-- 'Heaven protect me! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | I am ruined and undone!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Na, if that's the gait o't, Beenie, I hae nothing to say, but to help to tak up the loupen-steek in your stocking wi' as much brevity as is consistent wi' perspicuity, as the minister o' Port Glasgow says.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'What do you mean? |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | to what do you allude?' cried the young lady terrified. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Beenie Walkinshaw, I'll be calm; I'll no lose my composity. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But it's no to seek what I could say, ye Jerusalem concubine, to bring sic a crying sin into my family. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | O woman, woman! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | but ye're a silly nymph, and the black stool o' repentance is oure gude for you!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Robina was so shocked and thunderstruck at the old lady's imputations and kindling animadversions, that she actually gasped with horror. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'But,' continued her grandmother,--'since it canna be helped noo, I maun just tell your father, as well as I can, and get the minister when we're thegither in the afternoon, and declare an irregular marriage, which is a calamity that never happened on my side of the house.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | Unable any longer to control her agitation, Robina started from her seat, exclaiming, 'Hear me, in mercy! |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | spare such horrible--' 'Spare!' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | interrupted the Leddy, with the sharpest tone of her indignation,--'An' ye were my dochter as ye're but my grand-dochter, I would spare you, ye Israelitish handmaid, and randy o' Babylon. |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | But pride ne'er leaves its master without a fa'--your father's weel serv't--he would tak nane o' my advice in your education; but instead o' sending you to a Christian school, got down frae Manchester, in England, a governess for miss, my leddy, wi' gum-flowers on her head, and paint on her cheeks, and speaking in sic high English, that the Babel babble o' Mull and Moydart was a perfection o' sense when compar't wi't.' |
44,573 | The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy | 'Good heavens! |
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