George was brought up with his father, and educated partly at the
parish school, and partly at home, by a tutor hired for the
purpose. He was a generous and kind-hearted youth; always
ready to oblige, and hardly ever dissatisfied with anybody. Robert
was brought up with Mr. Wringhim, the laird paying a certain
allowance for him yearly; and there the boy was early inured to
all the sternness and severity of his pastor's arbitrary and
unyielding creed. He was taught to pray twice every day, and
seven times on Sabbath days; but he was only to pray for the
elect, and, like Devil of old, doom all that were aliens from God
to destruction. He had never, in that family into which he had
been as it were adopted, heard aught but evil spoken of his
reputed father and brother; consequently he held them in utter
abhorrence, and prayed against them every day, often "that the
old hoary sinner might be cut off in the full flush of his iniquity,
and be carried quick into hell; and that the young stem of the
corrupt trunk might also be taken from a world that he disgraced,
but that his sins might be pardoned, because he knew no better.
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