"It may be, sir but I ken this -an I had been the laird, I wadna hae ta'en that story in. "I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours." The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg, John Carey (Editor) 3.66 8,316 ratings660 reviews Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. They depend much on the thoughts and affections of the mother and, it is probable, that the mother of this boy, being deserted by her worthless husband, having turned her thoughts on me, as likely to be her protector, may have caused this striking resemblance." "But, John, there are many natural reasons for such likenesses, besides that of consanguinity. A wide-ranging introduction discusses the novel in relation to its setting as well as to the period in which it. "I hae said mony a time, that he resembled you, sir. This edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner places the work within the context of Calvinism, Scottish political and constitutional history, and early psychological theories of double consciousness. "But did you ever say to any one, that he resembled me, and fathered himself well enough?" "Ye canna hinder me to think whatever I like, sir, nor can I hinder mysel." Tell me, dare you say, or dare you think, that I am the natural father of that boy?"
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