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The King of France, on August 27, sent friendly messages by Belleisle, but 'could not be explicit. Elliot reported that Clancarty 'would stick at no lyes to bring about his schemes. On September 5 came an anonymous warning against Murray, who 'is not trusted by the French Ministry. On September 28, Laurence Oliphant of Gask sent verses in praise of Charles written by 'Madame de Montagu, the lady who lent him 1,000l. years before.
"It is said to keep him much warmer than if it were dark," he remarked: "But I should think that it is so that he may not readily be seen against the snow. Perhaps that is Nature's way of taking care of him. We are all her children. But these are things that neither you nor I can understand." By Lillian M. Gask "I wonder where I shall find a Camel," said Phil to himself.
In 1762, young Oliphant of Gask, who visited the Prince at Bouillon, reports that he will have nothing to do with France till his daughter is restored to him. He held moodily aloof, and then the Peace came. Here is a sad and tender admonition from Murray, whose remonstrances were more softly conveyed than those of Goring: 'Thursday.
With this loyalty to his foes, with this clemency to enemies in his power, Charles certainly combined a royal grace, and could do handsome things handsomely. Thus, in 1745, some of the tenants of Oliphant of Gask would not don the white cockade at his command. Thus, in many ways we see the elements of a distinguished and attractive character in Charles. His enemies, like the renegade Dr.
Many of the second line had blindly followed the first: the rest shunned the action; Hawley's officers led away some regiments in an orderly retreat; night fell; no man knew what had really occurred till young Gask and young Strathallan, with the French and Atholl men, ventured into Falkirk, and found Hawley's camp deserted.
Young Gask repeats the same melancholy tale. Charles was hopeless. 'Old Mr. 'A fairy Prince with happy eyes And lighter-footed than the fox. James expired 'without the least convulsion or agony, says Lumisden, 'but with his usual mild serenity in his countenance. . . . He seemed rather to be asleep than dead. A proscribed exile from his cradle, James was true to faith and honour.
And at the top of the cataract of the Golden River, are still to be seen TWO BLACK STONES, round which the waters howl mournfully every day at sunset; and these stones are still called by the people of the valley By Lillian M. Gask A heavy snow-storm was raging, and great soft flakes fell through the air like feathers shaken from the wings of an innumerable host of angels.
Prose Works, vol. xx. pp. 374-6. Southerne's Fatal Marriage. In the Gamester by Moore. Sir Samuel Shepherd. See ante, vol. i. p. 51 n. Sir Robert Preston, Bart., died in May 1834, aged ninety-five. J.G.L. Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. See ante, p. 279 note, and for sketch of Adam Rolland of Gask, Cockburn's Memorials, pp. 360-3.
None came; the Stoat had missed a turn in the winding tunnel, and the flying Hackees reached the hollow tree in safety. Once there, it was easy to dive down another burrow and so baffle pursuit, but they were two very frightened Squirrels when at last they stopped for breath. By Lillian M. Gask
It was while he was ill, and the matron and boys were hunting for him, that he thought he wandered away and, under the guidance of Mother Nature, made the acquaintance of a lot of new friends. By Lillian M. Gask The air was as warm as summer, and the murmur of the big brown velvet Bee that hovered over a purple flower made Phil think of the garden at home.
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