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Merton conceived that the wits of his visitor were worse than 'wool gathering, that he had 'softening of the brain. But circumstances presently indicated that Lord Restalrig was actually suffering from a much less common disorder softening of the heart. He returned to his seat, and helped himself to snuff out of the enamelled gold box, on which Merton deemed it politic to keep a watchful eye.
'A distant relation: my name is Logan. 'What, of the Restalrig family? said the Earl, with excitement. 'A far-off kinsman of the Marquis, said Logan, adding, 'May I ask you to be seated? 'This is really very interesting to me surprisingly interesting, said the Earl. 'What a strange coincidence! How small the world is, how brief are the ages! Our ancestors, Mr.
Matters fell out otherwise; but, had the King entered Gowrie House early, and scantly attended, he might have been conveyed across Fife, disguised, in the train of Gowrie as he went to Dirleton. Thence he might be conveyed by sea to Fastcastle, the impregnable eyrie of Gowrie's and Bothwell's old ally, the reckless intriguer, Logan of Restalrig.
And, after entering the other chamber, she wept a while, ‘and we saw her going up and down the chamber weeping.’ A fortnight later, Lady Restalrig blamed Bower for the selling of Fastcastle.
You'll know who I am? His accent was nearly as broad as that of one of his own hinds, and he sometimes used Scottish words, to Merton's perplexity. 'Every one has heard of the Marquis of Restalrig, said Merton. 'Ay, and little to his good, I'll be bound? 'I do not listen to gossip, said Merton.
At this time Lady Restalrig was deeply distressed, she wished Logan at the Indies, if only he would first settle Flemington on herself. ‘If it be God’s will, I desire never to have a child to him,’ she said. ‘I have a guess what this mystery means, woe’s me for his motherless children,’ that is, children of former marriages. Later, Lady Restalrig had a daughter, Anna, by Logan.
Though not in debt—or at least though no record of his ‘horning’ exists—he took to selling his lands, Restalrig, Flemington, Gunnisgreen, Fastcastle. Why did Logan sell all his lands, investing in shipping property? He died, and his children by his first wives dissociated themselves from his executorship.
He made another more elaborate proposal at a date which, to all seeming, was July 1601. In the appended list of Scottish Catholic nobles appear the names of the Earl of Gowrie, and of ‘Baron Rastellerse,’ that is, Logan of Restalrig.
She died at Restalrig on October 8, 510, and may have converted the Celts, who then dwelt in a crannog in the loch; at all events we hear that, in a very dry summer, the timbers of a crannog were found in the sandy deposit of the lake margin. The windows are blocked up with stones, the exterior is a mere mound of grass like a sepulchral tumulus.
At the back against the wall the curtains, embroidered with the arms of Restalrig, remained closed. 'I sat here all the night, said Mrs. Bower, 'watching the corp that my hands had streikit. The candles were burning a' about him, the saut lay on his breast, only aefold o' linen covered him. My back was to the window, my face to his feet.
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