It is as true as that the whole is greater than the part, and the maxim is so old that it is trite - it is laughable. The indifference of the People is the opportunity of the despot. If it is not a railroad trust, it is a sugar trust, or an oil trust, or an industrial trust, that exploits the People, because the people allow it. There are other great trusts, God knows, in the United States besides our own dear P. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better people to public affairs. “If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. And was without a roof to shelter her.Ī lass would be silly to pass up such a match, MacKinnon. Then there was the fact that he was bound to this war until its end. She was bonnie, strong, and spirited, qualities that would surely pass to her children, while he had the skill to protect her, provide for her-and show her what the passion in her Scottish blood was for.Īye, but she was a Protestant and came from Loyalist roots, while he was Catholic and sprang from a clan that had stood by the Stuarts. You barely ken the lass.Įven as he rejected the notion, some part of him decided it was not so daft as it seemed. Och! For God’s sake, he was thinking of marrying her.Īre you mad, MacKinnon. What the bloody hell are you thinkin’, MacKinnon? “But if she were still unmarried by war’s end.
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