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into account that the one friend becomes ungrateful. James II., from
policy, was indisposed to create peerages, but he transferred them
freely. The transfer of a peerage produces no sensation. It is simply
the continuation of a name. The order is little affected by it.
The goodwill of royalty had no objection to raise Lord David Dirry-Moir
to the Upper House so long as it could do so by means of a substituted
peerage. Nothing would have pleased his majesty better than to transform
Lord David Dirry-Moir, lord by courtesy, into a lord by right.
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