Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849

THE CAXTONS. – PART XIII

CHAPTER LXVI

CHAPTER LXVII

CHAPTER LXVIII

CHAPTER LXIX

CHAPTER LXX

CHAPTER LXXI

CHAPTER LXXII

CHAPTER LXXIII

CHAPTER LXXIV

CHAPTER LXXV

CHAPTER LXXVI

CHAPTER LXXVII

CHAPTER LXXVIII

CHAPTER LXXIX

THE ROMANCE OF RUSSIAN HISTORY.4

LETTERS TO THE REV. CHARLES FUSTIAN,

LETTER FIRST

LETTER SECOND

LETTER THIRD

LETTER FOURTH

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY

FEUDALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

CIVIL REVOLUTION IN THE CANADAS

Dies Boreales

Scene —Cladich, Lochawe-side

Scene II. —Interior of the Pavilion

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St Chrysostom, in his work on The Priesthood, defends deceit, if for a good purpose, by many Scriptural examples; ends his first book by asserting that it is often necessary, and that much benefit may arise from it; and begins his second book by saying that it ought not to be called deceit, but "good management."

Good management, then, let me call the innocent arts by which I now sought to insinuate my project into favour and assent with my unsuspecting family. And first I began with Roland. I easily induced him to read some of the books, full of the charm of Australian life, which Trevanion had sent me; and so happily did those descriptions suit his own erratic tastes, and the free, half-savage man that lay rough and large within that soldierly nature, that he himself, as it were, seemed to suggest my own ardent desire – sighed, as the careworn Trevanion had done, that "he was not my age," and blew the flame that consumed me with his own willing breath. So that when at last – wandering one day over the wild moors – I said, knowing his hatred of law and lawyers —

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"How such a loss must grieve him!"

I did not speak.

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