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Updated: May 15, 2025
Two courses suggested themselves to Hilary one, to go and consult Miss Balquidder; the other which came into her mind from some similar case she had heard of to set on foot inquiries at all police stations. But the first idea was soon rejected: only at the last extremity could she make patent the family misery the family disgrace. To the second, similar and even stronger reasons applied.
"I suppose, because I know nobody here. It seems so very hard to get teaching in London. But I beg your pardon." "I beg yours," said Miss Balquidder not without a certain dignity "for asking questions of a stranger. But I was once a stranger here myself, and had a 'sair fecht, as we say in Scotland, before I could earn even my daily bread.
He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
The story ended, both turned, as was the character of both, to the practical application of it what it was exactly that Hilary needed, and what Miss Balquidder could supply. The latter said, after a turn or two up and down the room, with her hands behind her the only masculine trick she had "My dear, before going further, I ought to tell you one thing I am not a lady."
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