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The governor saw him once, and had to leave the room. 'I can't stand it, he said to me outside, 'the dam fellow keeps hopping up and down, and calling me His Grace. He's either unwell, or his trousers are coming off." Lord Blervie had helped himself to some more whisky and sighed. "I've had an awful time," he continued after a while.
I number the Hearl, sir, among my most intimate friends. . . ." Vane, who remembered the graphic description given him by Blervie the Earl's eldest son at lunch one day, concerning the transaction at the time of the sale, preserved a discreet silence. "A horrible-looking little man, old bean," that worthy had remarked. "Quite round, and bounces in his chair.
Banffshire can claim a Stoddart, and Morayshire the two M'Kessocks, the Laird of Ardgay, and the tenant of Balnaferry; and I do not know which to admire most, the daring and skill of the laird, or the caution and skill of the tenant, Macdonald of Blervie, through whose hands three-fourths of the store cattle in Morayshire pass.
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