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I should have said that I admired your magnanimity with--this--offender," Archie concluded with a gulp.
"I have no other son, ye see," said Hermiston.

"A bonny one I have gotten! But I must just do the best I can wi' him, and what am I to do?
If ye had been younger, I would have wheepit ye for this rideeculous exhibeetion.

The way it is, I have just to grin and bear.

But one thing is to be clearly understood.