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Updated: May 2, 2025
Only, there underneath was that mighty force, relentless, inexorable, of heredity, causing the instinct which had dominated the Arranstouns for eleven hundred years.
The Arranstouns had been at Arranstoun since the time of those tiresome Picts and Scots and for generations they had raided their neighbors' castles and lands, and carried off their cattle and wives and daughters and what not! They had seized anything they fancied, and were a strong, ruthless, brutal race, not much vitiated by civilization.
This old border castle up in the north and not a mortgage on the entire property! While, from his mother, a number of solid golden sovereigns flowed into his coffers every year obtained by trade! That was a little disgusting for the Arranstouns but extremely useful.
For the letter to Messrs. McDonald and Malden had gone, and the first act of the tragedy of his freedom had been begun. It was a colossal price to pay for honor and friendship, but while they had been brigands and robbers for hundreds of years, the Arranstouns had not been dishonorable men, and had once or twice in their history done a great and generous thing.
No details would probably be known, but that Michael Arranstoun had married a Sabine Delburg and now divorced her would certainly be announced in the Scotch journals, where the Arranstouns and their Castle were of such interest to the public. "If only I had been called Mary Smith!" Sabine almost moaned.
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