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pretty a woman from the republic--bestow on the little Lord David, the
son of his conquest, the office of keeper of the stick, which made that
bastard officer, boarded at the king's expense, by a natural revulsion
of feeling, an ardent adherent of the Stuarts. Lord David was for some
time one of the hundred and seventy wearing the great sword, while
afterwards, entering the corps of pensioners, he became one of the forty
who bear the gilded halberd. He had, besides being one of the noble
company instituted by Henry VIII. as a bodyguard, the privilege of
laying the dishes on the king's table. Thus it was that whilst his
father was growing gray in exile, Lord David prospered under Charles II.
After which he prospered under James II.
The king is dead. Long live the king! It is the non deficit alter,
aureus.
It was on the accession of the Duke of York that he obtained permission
to call himself Lord David Dirry-Moir, from an estate which his mother,
who had just died, had left him, in that great forest of Scotland, where
is found the krag, a bird which scoops out a nest with its beak in the
trunk of the oak.
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