Fain would I have sent her after her lover, and gave
my friend some hints on the occasion; but he only shook his head,
and said that we must lay all selfish and interested motives out of
the question.
For a long time, when I awaked in the morning, I could not
believe my senses, that I was indeed the undisputed and sole
proprietor of so much wealth and grandeur; and I felt so much
gratified that I immediately set about doing all the good I was
able, hoping to meet with all approbation and encouragement
from my friend. I was mistaken. He checked the very first
impulses towards such a procedure, questioned my motives, and
uniformly made them out to be wrong. There was one morning
that a servant said to me there was a lady in the back chamber
who wanted to speak with me, but he could not tell me who it
was, for all the old servants had left the mansion, every one on
hearing of the death of the late laird, and those who had come
knew none of the people in the neighbourhood. From several
circumstances, I had suspicions of private confabulations with
women, and refused to go to her, but bid the servant inquire what
she wanted.
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