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Our subject leads us to talk of deadly feuds, and we must begin with one still more ancient than that to which our story relates. During the reign of James IV., a great feud between the powerful families of Drummond and Murray divided Perthshire. The former, being the most numerous and powerful, cooped up eight score of the Murrays in the kirk of Monivaird, and set fire to it.
It was the day when the church is illuminated, and the visitors come with their Baedekers and Hares and Murrays to identify its antiquities of architecture and fresco; it was full of people, and, if I fancied an unusual proportion of English-speaking converts among them, that might well have been, since the adjoining convent belongs to the Irish Dominicans.
Gowrie had not gone with his guests to aid the King; he was standing in the street, asking, 'What is the matter? I know nothing; when two of the King's household, Thomas and James Erskine, tried to seize him, the 'treason' being perpetrated under Gowrie's own roof. His friends drove the Erskines off, and some of the Murrays of Tullibardine, who were attending a wedding in Perth, surrounded him.
In that case, the Murrays would soon hear of the claimant to their estate, and there would be a law-suit. Brian began to feel interested in the matter again. He had lost all care for it in the period following upon his illness. He now foresaw, with something almost like pleasure, that he could easily obtain information about the Murrays if he went with the Herons to Strathleckie.
Hopes from Prussia The Murrays of Elibank Imprisonment of Alexander Murray Recommended to Charles The Elibank plot Prussia and the Earl Marischal His early history Ambassador of Frederick at Versailles His odd household Voltaire The Duke of Newcastle's resentment Charles's view of Frederick's policy His alleged avarice Lady Montagu His money-box Goring and the Earl Marischal Secret meetings The lace shop Albemarle's information Charles at Ghent Hanbury Williams's mares' nests Charles and 'La Grandemain' She and Goring refuse to take his orders Appearance of Miss Walkinshaw Her history Remonstrances of Goring 'Commissions for the worst of men' 'The little man' Lady Primrose Death of Mademoiselle Luci November 10, date of postponed Elibank plot Danger of dismissing an agent.
And he was a man who would certainly be thorough in his work, though his thoroughness should be ruinous to himself. He had despised the Murrays, who ought to have stuck to their distant cousin, and had exulted in his heart at thinking that the world would say how much better and truer had been the Keswick tailor than the well-born and comparatively wealthy Scotch relations.
I find that Gordon Murray would be my second cousin once removed, and that his child or children he has more than one, I believe would, therefore, be my third cousins. A little while ago I should have thought it highly improbable that any of the Gordon Murrays would ever come into possession of Strathleckie, but it is not at all improbable now." "Where do these Murrays live?" "In London, I think.
They all throve professionally, but purely by the force of their talents and high character. As there was not any precisely equivalent group of men at any other bar in the United Kingdom, we think Scotland is entitled to take some credit to herself for her Jeffreys, her Cranstons, her Murrays, and her Cockburns: at least, she will not soon forget their names.
The inevitable English family with the three daughters, prominent of teeth, flowing of hair, aggressive of scarlet Murrays and Baedekers; the two blond and untidy Germans; a French couple from the pages of La Vie Parisienne; and our "old man of the sea," the white-bearded Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who had made our life miserable in Rome at the time of the Pope's Jubilee.
We got into the carriage full of Buonaparte, returned to Paris, and then got out again with the Murrays at Malmaison. It is the only enviable French house I have seen, and deserves everything Edward said about it, even without the statues and half the pictures which are taken away. We spent three or four hours in the Thuilleries Gardens on Sunday.
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