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I find that I had at the time taken a note of this interview ; it is jotted down on a subsequent note FORTITUDE IN ADVERSITY 137 of his requesting me to accompany him in a walk to recover the fatigue he had undergone in his first endeavours to rebuild the foundation on which, should health serve, he meant to rear the fabric of his fortunes. ' But woe 's me ! ' he said, ' I must mistrust my vigour, for the best of my energies are already expended. You have seen, my dear Skene, the Roman coursers... urged to their speed by a loaded spur attached to their backs to whet the rusted metal of their age — aye, it is a leaden spur indeed, and it goads hard. ' I added, ' But what do you think, Scott, of the bits of flaming paper that are pasted on the flanks of the poor jades : if we could but stick certain small documents on your back, and set fire to them, I think you might submit for a time to the pricking of the spur. ' He laughed and said, * Aye ! aye ! these weary bills ; if they were but as the thing that is not.
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