24/24 The idea! the very idea! His bank against my family name, my family honour! Preposterous!" "Honour is honour, Captain Cameron," replied Mr.Rae firmly, "and it might have been better if you had remembered that the honour of a cottar's son is as dear to him as yours is to you." And such was Mr.Rae's manner that the Captain appeared to consider it wise to curb his rage, or at least suppress all reference to questions of honour in as far as they might be related to the question of birth and breeding.. |