said plainer than words: "You've done it, my boy; this is irrevocable!"'Lady Bligh was drawn at last.
'This is very painful,' she murmured; 'this is too painful, Granville!'
'Painful?' cried Granville. 'I grant you it's painful; but it's the fact; it's got to be faced.'
'That may be,' said Lady Bligh, sadly; 'that may be. But we ought not to be hasty; and we certainly ought not to make too much of this one escapade.'
Granville shook his head wisely, and smiled.
15
'I don't think there is much fear of that. [65] On the contrary, I doubt if our eyes are even yet fully open to the enormity of this morning's work. I don't think we any of us realise the hideous indignity to which my father has been subjected. But we should. We should think of it--and of him. Here we have one of the oldest and ablest of Her Majesty's judges--a man of the widest experience and of the fairest fame, whose name is a synonym for honour and humanity, not only in the Profession, but throughout every section of the community--a man, my dear mother, with whom the very smartest of us--I tell you frankly--would fight shy of a tilt in court, yet whom we all respect and honour; in very truth, "a wise and upright judge," though I say it who am his son. And what
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