A long time of wandering
followed, with ceaseless inquiry, and alternating disappointment and fresh
expectation; but every day something occurred that served just to keep the
life in her, and at last she reached the county-town, where she was taken
to a place of shelter.
CHAPTER VIII
James Blatherwick was proving himself not unacceptable to his native
parish, where he was thought a very rising man, inasmuch as his fluency was
far ahead of his perspicuity. He soon came to note the soutar as a man far
in advance of the rest of his parishioners; but he saw, at the same time,
that he was regarded by most as a wild fanatic if not as a dangerous
heretic; and himself imagined that he saw in him certain indications of a
mild lunacy.
In Tiltowie he pursued the same course as elsewhere: anxious to let nothing
come between him and the success of his eloquence, he avoided any
appearance of differing in doctrine from his congregation; and until he
should be more firmly established, would show himself as much as possible
of the same mind with them, using the doctrinal phrases he had been
accustomed to in his youth, or others so like that they would be taken to
indicate unchanged opinions, while for his part he practised a mental
reservation in regard to them.
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