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"I will leave the time to your meeserable conscience," said Miss McTavish generously. "Meanwhile, my dear man, while the semblance of prosperity abides over my head in the shape of a roof, there's a matter o' ten pound " Mr. Traquair rose briskly to his feet. "Ten pound!" he exclaimed. "Only ten pound," she wheedled.
Miss McTavish is out now would you like to look about a little?" "Dearly," said McTavish. Miss McTavish sent for Mr. Traquair. He went to her with a heavy conscience, for as yet he had done nothing toward raising the ten pounds. At her first words his conscience became still more laden. "Traquair," she said, "you mustn't tell him yet." It was all Traquair could do to keep countenance.
Then he set off, dressed in the oldest clothes he had, wondering what adventures he would meet with in the wilds. Foster left Peebles soon after his arrival and following the Tweed down stream to Traquair turned south across the hills. A road brought him to Yarrow, where he sat down to smoke in the shelter of a stone dyke by the waterside.
That had already been decided in a manner of which he could not have failed to disapprove, and Lord Traquair had secured a verdict. For long the judge held to the warlock theory, and he was not averse, after dinner, over a bottle, from telling at great length the story of his terrible experiences during those mysterious three months of captivity.
Nevertheless we were all deeply religious, by which no one need infer that we were good. There was one service a week, held on Sundays, in Traquair Kirk, which every one went to; and the shepherds' dogs kept close to their masters' plaids, hung over the high box-pews, all the way down the aisle.
Traquair, stroking his white mustache, "tell me what it all means." "It means that Colland McTavish, who was my great-grandfather's elder brother, has returned in the person of the young gentleman at the Arms." "A fine hornpipe he'll have to prove it," said Mr. Traquair. "Fine fiddlesticks!" said The McTavish.
In the enumeration given by one of the agents employed in traversing the country, Lord Nithisdale and his relatives are mentioned as certain and potent allies. "In Tweedale," writes Mr. Fleming to the Minister of Louis the Fourteenth, "the Earl of Traquair, of the house of Stuart, and the Laird of Stanhope are powerful.
The thought, like some stealing perfume, carried him back to those wonderful nights at Richmond when after dinner he sat smoking on the terrace of the Crown and Sceptre with Nicholas Treffry and Traquair and Jack Herring and Anthony Thornworthy. How good his cigars were then!
He met her once more at Berwick in June 1517, when Margaret returned to Scotland on Albany's departure in vain hopes of regaining the regency. Meanwhile, during Margaret's absence, Angus had formed a connexion with a daughter of the laird of Traquair. Margaret avenged his neglect of her by refusing to support his claims for power and by secretly trying through Albany to get a divorce.
There's a man yont, named McTavish, will oost me frae hoose and name." "That would be the young gentleman stopping at the McTavish Arms." "Ah," said The McTavish, "he might stop here if he but knew." "He's no intending it, then," said Mr. Traquair, "for he called upon me this morning to hire the Duke's forest of Clackmanness." "Ah!" said The McTavish. "And now," said Mr.
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