Blog Post #17

First of all, I like Hogg's cursive script. For one thing I can actually read most of it, and also it's very pretty. My cursive hasn't improved much since I learned the style in 3rd grade. Anyways! I don't understand the relation of the editor's narrative to Hogg's confessions, but I suppose that will be explained further on. Mrs. Colwan, Lady Dalcastle, gets rolled in a blanket. This sounds like a highly undignified and undesirable means of conveyance, even though she did "run away" from her soon-to-be husband. It would make an interesting spectacle, no doubt about it. Then her own father beats her "with many stripes" and locks her away with only water and bread to eat. Poor thing! Despite numerous attempts, she cannot get her wayward husband to convert or pray. Her son George has a strained relationship with her other son Robert Wringhim. Affairs are horrible and make everything confusing...George is a romantic person who enjoys sitting on hillsides and gazing at clouds. It seems that he has an exceptionally vivid imagination or else his foul brother Wringhim really is in leage with the devil, as George suggests. In any case, Wringhim is absolutely creepy and needs to stop following George around.