Cluny Mac Pherson; A Tale of Brotherly Love

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE NEW DOMINIE. ' "One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition." When the news of Monteith's failure became known in Edinburgh he was in his Highland home. He knew he would have to wait the settlement of both estates before he could put into execution any of his plans for the future. But the law would allow him at all events a year to arrange his father's affairs, and during that year he could occupy the Monteith Place. There he would be out of the reach of many annoyances, and he had taken care to supply himself with,;£8oo in ready cash. "After all," he thought, as he stirred the logs in the old house, and looked around at its loneliness and comforts, "it is a very suitable place in which to await the winding up of the past and lay my plans for the future." The thing he dreaded most was an accidental meeting with Maxwell or the MacPhersons. He could only imagine them as rejoicing in his downfall. He pictured to himself the satisfaction with which David would read the news, the scornful laugh with which Cluny would tell it at mess, or talk it over on the street to men with whom he had had acquaintance or business transactions; for Monteith always failed to imagine any other kind of soul than his own, and this very inability to believe in any higher morality had brought him great loss even in money matters. The news came to David rather later than to others. He happened to have a case on hand involving large public interests, and demanding both careful investigation and profound study. If successfully managed it would open to him legal pastures which he had long desired to enter. So he shut himself up with the facts and papers, giving all his heart and intellect to their consideration...