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Once more the Inverness gave her last agonised shriek, the captain shouted to the Ancient Mariner to get away there, for what was he doing whatever, and with a great deal of fussing and steaming and whistling the voyage was again commenced.
Mr Geddes stood at the top of the Highland Society's prize-list at the Inverness show as the owner of the best aged shorthorned bull, and was a winner along with Mr John M'Kessock in the class of shorthorned heifers. Mr Stronach of Ardmellie was a successful breeder of shorthorns. He sold off his stock some years ago. His farm was only 100 acres, but his stock fetched high prices.
"'Ush! Oh, 'ush an' lie close! It's Glasson!" "'Do you know me, my lord? 'Excellent well; you are a fishmonger." HAMLET. He stood on the edge of the wharf a black figure in an Inverness cape with his back towards the angle of the store where the children hid. There was no mistaking him.
The building consists of a high quadrangular pile of many stories, projecting backwards at each end, and pierced with windows of all shapes and sizes. I did my best to carry away a graphic sketch of the old castle and its surroundings: and then, with my stock of drawings, I prepared to return to Inverness on foot. The scenery was grand and beautiful.
The two young men wore their Argyleshire shooting clothes homespun knickerbockers and jackets, thick-ribbed hose knitted by Highland lasses in Inverness. They carried a couple of hunting flasks filled with claret, and a couple of sandwich boxes, and that was all.
Now it is the case that the traveller who travels into Argyllshire, Perthshire, and Inverness, expects to find lovely scenery; and it was also true that the country through which they had passed for the last twenty miles had been not only bleak and barren, but uninteresting and ugly.
Unfortunately, at the very moment when he was about to join the queen, the governor of Inverness, who was entirely devoted to him, was refusing to allow Mary to enter this castle, which was a royal one. It is true that Murray, aware that it does not do to hesitate in the face of such rebellions, had already had him executed for high treason.
"The Earl of Fairholme, Stanhope Gate." "Curious," thought Brett. "Where is his lordship?" he said aloud "at the door, or in the street?" "In a keb, sir." "Bring his lordship up." A rapid glance at "Debrett" revealed that the Earl of Fairholme was thirty, unmarried, the fourteenth of his line, and the possessor of country seats at Fairholme, Warwickshire, and Glen Spey, Inverness.
When we compare them with the class of animals raised in America it is easy to see why our wool and mutton average so greatly inferior. A clean, quiet, charming city is Inverness, "the capital of the Highlands," as the guide-books have it.
The door of the omnibus was opened as Duncombe stepped over the low wall into the road. A tall man in a long light Inverness descended. "Hullo, Duncombe!" he exclaimed, holding out his hand; "I was coming in to see you for a moment." "Good man!" Duncombe answered. "Bring your friends, won't you?" He held open the gate hospitably, but Lord Runton shook his head.
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