Nicholson (who was not a dull man) knew this, and raged at it. A stranger to the tight little theological kingdom of Scotland might have listened and gathered literally nothing. The names of Candlish and Begg were frequent in these interviews, and occasionally the talk ran on the Residuary Establishment and the doings of one Lee.
About the period when the churches convene at Edinburgh in their annual assemblies, he was to be seen descending the Mound in the company of divers red-headed clergymen: these voluble, he only contributing oracular nods, brief negatives, and the austere spectacle of his stretched upper lip. Nicholson found in them the milk of lions. What these are (and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent) no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence but to the Scot they often prove unctuously nourishing, and Mr. His father-that iron gentleman-had long ago enthroned himself on the heights of the Disruption Principles. Beyond this hint philosophy is silent on his career, and superstition steps in with the more ready explanation that he was detested of the gods. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood, and inclined to a cheerful and cursory reading of the face of life and possibly this attitude of mind was the original cause of his misfortunes. John Varey Nicholson was stupid yet, stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction. IN WHICH THE LIBERAL EDITOR RE-APPEARS AS ‘DEUS EX MACHINA’ THE PRODIGAL FATHER GOES ON FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH THE PRODIGAL FATHER MAKES HIS DEBUT AT HOME NICHOLSON ACCEPTS THE PRINCIPLE OF AN ALLOWANCE SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE UTILITY OF PASS-KEYS
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