they made buy the bread they gave him by all sorts of harshness. The
result was that the child, proud and spiteful as a Douglas, and knowing,
although his fortune was inferior, that his birth was equal to his proud
relatives, had little by little changed his early gratitude into lasting
and profound hatred: for one used to say that among the Douglases there
was an age for loving, but that there was none for hating. It results
that, feeling his weakness and isolation, the child was self-contained
with strength beyond his years, and, humble and submissive in appearance,
only awaited the moment when, a grown-up young man, he could leave
Lochleven, and perhaps avenge himself for the proud protection of those
who dwelt there. But the feelings that we have just expressed did not
extend to all the members of the family: as much as from the bottom of
his heart the little Douglas detested William and his mother, so much he
loved George, the second of Lady Lochleven's sons, of whom we have not
yet spoken, because, being away from the castle when the queen arrived,
we have not yet found an opportunity to present him to our readers.

George, who at this time might have been about twenty-five or twenty-six
years old, was the second son of Lord Lochleven; but by a singular
chance, that his mother's adventurous youth had caused Sir William to
interpret amiss, this second son had none of the characteristic features
of the Douglases' full cheeks, high colour, large ears, and red hair.
The result was that poor George, who, on the contrary, had been given by
nature pale cheeks, dark blue eyes, and black hair, had been since coming
into the world an object of indifference to his father and of dislike to
his elder brother. As to his mother, whether she were indeed in good
faith surprised like Lord Douglas at this difference in race, whether she
knew the cause and inwardly reproached herself, George had never been,
ostensibly at least, the object of a very lively maternal affection; so
the young man, followed from his childhood by a fatality that he could