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My grandfather had never before been in the town of Paisley, but he had often heard from Abercorn's serving-men that were wont to sorn about his father's smiddy, of a house of jovial entertainment by the water-side, about a stone-cast from the abbey-yett, the hostess whereof was a certain canty dame called Maggy Napier, then in great repute with the shavelings of the abbey.
Miss Clairville's expression, colouring, and animated play of gesture lived again in this mysterious child. About seven o'clock, just as Mrs. Abercorn's "nice little show" was beginning, he took his way home.
All these people, with four or five exceptions, are small cottars living on wretched little mountain farms, not on the Duke of Abercorn's property; and but for this industry they would be absolutely without employment all the winter through. Some of them come from a distance of twelve or fourteen miles, and but for this resource would literally starve.
Judging by their portraits by Lawrence, which hung round our dining-room, my great-grandfather, old Lord Abercorn's sons and daughters must have been of singular and quite unusual personal beauty. Not one of the five attained the age of twenty-nine, all of them succumbing early to consumption.
I stick to Lord Abercorn's: and for the rest I pursue my profession as quietly and more steadily than ever. Certainly Lawrence seemed a likely man to achieve successes, both social and artistic. And he did succeed unquestionably. I would rather have had my talk with Lawrence, who talked delightfully, and heard the girl, than have had all the fame of Moore and me put together.
His half-sister, Lady Louisa Russell, was the wife of my half-brother, Lord Abercorn, and Lord John was a frequent guest at Lord Abercorn's villa at Stanmore, where my father habitually passed his Saturdays and Sundays during the session, and where I almost wholly lived.
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