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unto us and therefore
his rising to the height
at the crisis makes him
the greater example to
us all. And that he was
cruel to poor old
Constable even at the
moment of his greatest
heroism makes the
tale the more humanly
credible.

I am wondering what
on p.161 you mean by
saying "if he errs at all
in fairness it is in his
portrait at Claverhouse'?
Do you mean it is too favourable
[in margin:] or too unfavourable?
Yrs ever

George Trevelyan