Lanterna Rally

Author: Thomas Nelson Page

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Published: 2020-06-27

Total Pages: 803

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Gordon Keith was the son of a gentleman. And this fact,like the cat the honest miller left to his youngest son, washis only patrimony. As in that case also, it stood to thepossessor in the place of a good many other things. Ithelped him over many rough places. He carried it with himas a devoted Romanist wears a sacred scapulary next tothe heart.His father, General McDowell Keith of "Elphinstone," wasa gentleman of the old kind, a type so old-fashioned that itis hardly accepted these days as having existed. He knewthe Past and lived in it; the Present he did not understand,and the Future he did not know. In his latter days, whenhis son was growing up, after war had swept like a vastinundation over the land, burying almost everything it hadnot borne away, General Keith still survived, unchanged,unmoved, unmarred, an antique memorial of the life ofwhich he was a relic. His one standard was that of agentleman.