Stuart of Dunleath a Story of Modern Times volume 2
Stuart of Dunleath a Story of Modern Times volume 2
Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
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We're going to puck them off to school in Edinhurgh. " To school ! Frederic — Clephane — her pale, gentle Clephane ! Eleanor was startled. She wondered how she could prevent this — this, which she knew to be unnecessary ; for David Stuart had given her an education, which made her more than usually able to conduct that of her little sons. She planned all she would say to Sir Stephen to convince him — to persuade him that it would be best for the children to be at home, at least for a year or tw...o longer. She tonned over all the arguments she could think of, as likely to weigh with him ; and then she sighed ; for she knew that it would depend less on conviction, than on the disposition to thwart and govern her. That strange, in- stinctive desire to tyrannise in outward circumstances, which comes like a disease to those who feel they have no sway over the STUART OF DUNLEATH. 199 mind ; that determination to annoy, since they cannot influence; that fierce hope to prove doubtful power, by forbidding, exacting, and compelling ; that angry impulse of a narrow soul which answers to the exertion of brute-strength in a school-boy, had too often been evident to Eleanor in her husband, not to teach her that all she could reaUy rely upon, was that he would not care to oppose her in this matter ; that he would not think it "worthwhile.
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