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Excerpt: "...could make no impression, and apprehensive that entreaty would prove equally ineffectual; but nevertheless he again addressed the Nabob, in a firmer tone, however, than he had hitherto employed - "Sir, such proceedings are not in unison with the feelings of this country. Mr. Mailings is the representative of an ancient family; the habits and affections of the people of Scotland are still strongly disposed to take the part of a man of his condition when he suffers from oppression." "They were" replied the Nabob, drily; "but now, I suspect, they are quite as well disposed to esteem those who, by their own merits, have made their own fortunes, and have brought home from other countries the means of improving their native land. I have myself spent more money here, Dr. Lounlans, on Nawaubpore, than all that the Mailings, since the Ragman's Roll, have had to spend, whether got by thieving in days of yore, or by rack rents and borrowing in our own time." "But, Sir," replied the young minister, fervently, "the day is yet far distant, and I hope will long remain so, when the honest people of Scotland will look tamely on and see mere wealth and ostentation treading down their an

Author

[by] John Galt

Publisher

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press ; London: Distributed by Chatto and Windus

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701121754

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24