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Such were the tenets in which it would appear young Robert was
bred. He was an acute boy, an excellent learner, had ardent and
ungovernable passions, and, withal, a sternness of demeanour
from which other boys shrunk. He was the best grammarian, the
best reader, writer, and accountant in the various classes that he
attended, and was fond of writing essays on controverted points
of theology, for which he got prizes, and great praise from his
guardian and mother. George was much behind him in scholastic
acquirements, but greatly his superior in personal prowess, form,
feature, and all that constitutes gentility in the deportment and
appearance. The laird had often manifested to Miss Logan an
earnest wish that the two young men should never meet, or at all
events that they should be as little conversant as possible; and
Miss Logan, who was as much attached to George as if he had
been her own son, took every precaution, while he was a boy, that
he should never meet with his brother; but, as they advanced
towards manhood, this became impracticable. The lady was
removed from her apartments in her husband's house to Glasgow,
to her great content; and all to prevent the young laird being
tainted with the company of her and her second son; for the laird
had felt the effects of the principles they professed, and dreaded
them more than persecution, fire, and sword.
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