Honest men abhor, villains treat me with contumely; and he for whom I
incurred all this, because I would not, when my eyes were open to my
sin, again imbrue my hands in the blood of my country, now thrusts me
from him! You are implicated in my crime; and for not joining the
Southrons to repel the Scots from the royal camp, we are both
prisoners!"
"Then," replied Bruce," he shall feel that you have a son who has
virtue to be what he suspects; and from this hour I proclaim eternal
enmity to the betrayer of my father; to the ingrate who embraced you to
destroy!"
The indignation of the youthful prince wrought him to so vehement a
declaration of resolute and immediate hostility, that Lord Carrick was
obliged to give his transports way; but when he saw that his
denunciations were exhausted, though not the determined purpose of his
soul (for he trod the room with a step which seemed to shake its
foundations, with the power of his mighty mind), Carrick gazed on him
with pride, yet grief, and sighing heavily called him to approach him.
"Come to me, my Robert!" said he, "hear and abide by the last
injunctions of your father, for from this bed I may never rise more.
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