though in a sense of his own

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must have read for
twenty years uninterruptedlykeeping it near him in his studyand
carrying it in his bag on journeys. Another old theologianBrown of
Wamphraywas often in his hands. When he was indisposedhe had
two booksGUY MANNERING and THE PARENT'S ASSISTANTof
which he never wearied. He was a strong Conservativeoras he
preferred to call himselfa Tory; except in so far as his views were
modified by a hot-headed chivalrous sentiment for women. He was
actually in favour of a marriage law under which any woman might have
a divorce for the askingand no man on any ground whatever; and the
same sentiment found another expression in a Magdalen Mission in
Edinburghfounded and largely supported by himself. This was but
one of the many channels of his public generosity; his private was
equally unstrained. The Church of Scotlandof which he held the
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doctrines (though in a sense of his own) and to which he bore a
clansman's loyaltyprofited often by his time and money; and though
from a morbid sense of his own unworthinesshe would never consent to
be an office-bearerhis advice was often soughtand he served the
Church on many committees. What he perhaps valued highest in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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cried Sonia.
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