The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
What his sentiments would have been, had he known the tenor of his uncle's mind at that moment,--could he even but have suspected that the motive which dictated such seeming generosity, so like an honourable continuance of his former partiality, was prompted by a wish to remove him as soon as possible from the company of Ellen Frazer, in order to supplant him in her affections, we need not attempt to imagine how he would have felt.