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fee with fo favourable eyes; and that as
diffidence was a faculty more natural to
mankind than approbation, he was afraid,
that his appeal ing w;th the army in the
chara&er his birth intultd him to, might
rather hur than forward his Sovereign’s
caufe ; befidc.s, he faid, he could not totally
exculpate hin felf, tor that too flavifh fub-
miffion with which he had fo long bended
to the will of tyranny •, that his upright in¬
tentions, and the few laudable actions for
which their goodnefs had jollified the whole
purport of his condudt, did not amount to
a fufficient abfolution in his own mind :
that it was his refolution never more to re¬
turn to Scotland, but to linger out the reft;
of his exiftence in penitence, with the good
real Hermit who had affifted in faving his
life. Every body endeavoured to difiuade
him from this refolution, but in vain : Ar-
gyk) and Lorn) his fon-in-law, importuned
him in the moft moving language ; he was
determined ; and concluded by telling his
noble friend yfrgy/tf, that as for many years
paft, the only circumftance which made life
worthy of his care, was the concern which
paternal love infpired him with for the pre-
fervation and happinefs of Lorn and his
darling daughter •, and as that was now de¬
volved upon another, much more able and
refpe&able parent, he would retire from the
world