Pity for his worn face made her lenient.

Lord Cairnforth read her favorable judgment in her eyes, and it inclined him also to judge kindly of the stranger.

Mr.Menteith alone, more familiar with the world, and goaded by it into that sharp suspiciousness which is the last hardening of a kindly and generous heart--Mr.Menteith held aloof for some time, till at last even he succumbed to the charm of the captain's conversation.

Mr.Cardross had already fallen a willing victim, for he had latterly been deep in the subject of Warren Hastings, and to meet with any one who came direct from that wondrous land of India, then as mysterious and far-away a region as the next world, to people in England, and especially in the wilds of Scotland, was to the good minister a delight indescribable.
Captain Bruce, who had at first paid little attention to any body but his cousin, soon exercised his faculty of being "all things to all men," gave out his stores of information, bent all his varied powers to gratify Lord Cairnforth's friends, and succeeded.
The clock had struck twelve, and still the little party were gathered round the supper-table.

Captain Bruce rose.
"I am ashamed to have detained you from your natural rest, Lord Cairnforth.