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Then Traquair said rather solemnly: "You are young, Mr. McTavish, but I have hopes that your thinking will be of a wise and courageous nature." "Do you read Tennyson?" asked McTavish, apropos of nothing. "No," said Traquair, slightly nettled. "Burns." "I am sorry," said McTavish simply; "then you don't know the lines: 'If you are not the heiress born, And I, said he, 'the lawful heir, etc.
The next day Traquair appeared like a man who had gone under the harrows; and his lady wife thenceforward continued in her old course without the least deflection. Thenceforward Ninian went on his way without complaint, and suffered his wife to go on hers without remonstrance.
McTavish flung away his cigarette, and sprang to his feet as if some one had stuck a pin into him. Traquair, according to the schedule, vanished. "It seemed very, very long," said McTavish. "Miss McTavish," said Miss MacNish, "has consented to see you." "Good Heavens! when?" "Now." "But I don't want to see her now."
"She is a wise woman who concealeth the extremity of her husband's crime," replied Lord Traquair, with a smile, "But what wouldst thou have me to do?" "Just to save Christie's Will frae the gallows, my Lord," answered Margaret. And, going up close to his Lordship, and whispering in his ear "And sometimes a Lord needs a lift as weel as ither folk.
"He was allied," says the Scottish Peerage, "to most of the noble families in the two kingdoms." His mother, the Lady Lucy, was daughter to the Marquis of Douglas; his only sister, Lady Mary Maxwell, was married to Charles Stewart, Earl of Traquair; and he had himself wedded a descendant of that noble and brave Marquis of Worcester who had defended Ragland Castle against Fairfax.
'There's another thing that I am not sure that I am very caring for. She she sends me errands. 'Obey her, then, as is your bounden duty, said Traquair. 'Ay, but wait till I tell ye, says the boy. 'If I was to see you I was to hide. Montroymont sighed. 'Well, and that's good of her too, said he.
Within a few miles, many places famous in history and ballad may be visited: the road by which Montrose's men fled from Philiphaugh fight; Traquair House, with the bears on its gates, as on the portals of the Baron of Bradwardine; Williamhope, where Scott and Mungo Park, the African explorer, parted and went their several ways.
And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance of melancholy perversity and patient, unfortunate courage. Ninian Traquair was "cruallie slochtered" by the Crozers at the kirk-door of Balweary, anno 1482.
Procter, "that used to be a pleasant outing. The last time I went I drove down with Lord Byron and Dr. Parr, who had been breakfasting with my father." Mrs. Procter died in 1888. Among the remarkable women of our time, if merely in respect of longevity, must be reckoned Lady Louisa Stuart, sister and heir of the last Earl of Traquair.
And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance of melancholy perversity and patient, unfortunate courage. Ninian Traquair was 'cruallie slochtered' by the Crozers at the kirk-door of Balweary, anno 1482.
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