Transcript Lady Runcie Campbell

Lady Runcie Campbell
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‘Outstanding beauty of face…earnestness of spirit’
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She had an ability to exalt people out of their humdrum selves’
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‘Her father the judge had bequeathed to her a passion for justice, profound and
intelligence’
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‘The contradiction between her emulation of Christ and her eminence as a
baronet’s wife’ (p41)
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‘Not all our animals are ugly, cruel, savage and beastly; some are beautiful and
gentle’ (p43)
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‘I’m going to abide by your decision’ (to Duror)
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‘within her was a struggle between her Christian sympathy…and her pride as a
patrician’ (p48)
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‘She felt that her own hands and face were all blood’ (p72)
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‘She blames Calum for spoiling the deer hunt.’
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‘the grand lady, the representative of aristocracy’ (p77)
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‘I shall leave the decision to you’
Roderick
• ‘weak in body and complicated in mind’
• ‘He had never liked Duror’
• ‘He has an immense admiration for him’
(Calum’s climbing)
• ‘you told me yourself… never to be quiet if I
saw injustice being done.’(p77)
• ‘aren’t you the complete democrat?’ (p91)
• ‘We didn’t treat them fairly’
Duror
• ‘His tragedy was now to be played out in
public’ (p35)
• ‘That incommunicable phantom, his son;
and he felt the treachery of regret’
(p44)
• ‘Was Peggy dead? Suddenly it was as if
the burden of misery was lifted from
him. He began to laugh’ (p65)
Tulloch
• ‘He loved justice’
• ‘I find no fault in them’
• Much satisfaction at his own diplomacy (p80)