"
"He seems to me a fine kin' o' a lad," said Donal, "though some
owerbeirin'."
"The likes o' him are mair to be excused for that nor ither fowk,
for they hae great disadvantages i' the position an' the upbringin'.
It's no easy for him 'at's broucht up a lord to believe he's jist
ane wi' the lave."
Donal went for a stroll through the town, and met the minister, but
he took no notice of him. He was greatly annoyed at the march which
he said the fellow had stolen upon him, and regarded him as one who
had taken an unfair advantage of him. But he had little influence
at the castle. The earl never by any chance went to church. His
niece, lady Arctura, did, however, and held the minister for an
authority at things spiritual--one of whom living water was to be
had without money and without price. But what she counted spiritual
things were very common earthly stuff, and for the water, it was but
stagnant water from the ditches of a sham theology. Only what was a
poor girl to do who did not know how to feed herself, but apply to
one who pretended to be able to feed others? How was she to know
that he could not even feed himself? Out of many a difficulty she
thought he helped her--only the difficulty would presently clasp her
again, and she must deal with it as she best could, until a new one
made her forget it, and go to the minister, or rather to his
daughter, again.
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