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These were that he should plant himself in the Border shires, co-operating there with the Earls of Traquair, Hume, and Roxburgh, and other Royalists of those parts, so as to be ready to receive his Majesty himself emerging from England, or at least such an auxiliary force of English as Lord Digby should be able to despatch.
"Then it's fortunate I haven't," said he, "for you gave me a free hand." "Consider it tied behind your back for the present, for a wonderful thing is going to happen." "Indeed," said Traquair. "You wouldn't believe me when I tell you that the silly man is going to fall in love with me, and ask me to marry him!" "Although you haven't offered me a chair, my dear," said Traquair, "I will take one."
"Man," she continued earnestly, "you have looked in his face and you tell me it will be a dance to prove him The McTavish?" "He is a McTavish," admitted Mr. Traquair; "so much I knew before he told me his name." "He has in his pocket the bit shirt that wee Colland wore when the gypsies snitched him and carried him over seas; it's all of a piece with many another garment of wee Colland's.
James's Park, and stood there with his arm about his neck, to charm the gazing mob. Murray, the Pretender's secretary, has made ample confessions: the Earl of Traquair, and Mr. Barry, a physician, are apprehended, and more warrants are out; so much for rebels! Your friend, Lord Sandwich, is instantly going ambassador to Holland, to pray the Dutch to build more ships.
yet, beautiful in its purity as it seems, it is indeed the scene of the following true and terrible tale: Philips Grey was one of the most active young shepherds in the parish of Traquair. For two or three years he had carried off the medal given at the St.
'Ye have heard of a year they call the FORTY-FIVE, young gentleman; when the Southrons' heads made their last acquaintance with Scottish claymores? There was a set of rampauging chields in the country then that they called rebels I never could find out what for Some men should have been wi' them that never came, provost Skye and the Bush aboon Traquair for that, ye ken.
"Gin I had a true freen the noo! to gang down the wynd, an' find if it war but an auld Abraham o' a blue-gown, wi' a bit crowd, or a fizzle-pipe, to play me the Bush aboon Traquair! Na, na, na; it's singing the Lord's song in a strange land, that wad be; an' I hope the application's no irreverent, for ane that was rearit amang the hills o' God, an' the trees o' the forest which he hath planted.
Had he lived when Johnnie flourished, there might indeed have been two Armstrongs equally famous. As it was, Willie spent his days at constant feud with the law, and even the strong walls of Gilnockie were not for him always a secure shelter. Once it befell that the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, the Earl of Traquair, visiting Jedburgh, there found Willie lying in the "tolbooth."
"Did you know that Colland McTavish should have been The McTavish?" asked Mr. Traquair. "It never entered my head. Was he the oldest son?" "He was," said Mr. Traquair solemnly, "until in the eyes of the law he ceased to exist." "Then," said McTavish, "in every eye save that of the law I am The McTavish." Mr. Traquair bowed.
McTavish shook his head. "Houses lands?" Traquair looked up shrewdly from the corner of his eye, but McTavish shook his head again. "Power, then, Mr. McTavish?" "No not power." "Glory?" "No," said McTavish; "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid not." "Then, sir," said Traquair, "it's a woman." "No," said McTavish, and he blushed handsomely. "It's the woman."
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