The Highland Lady In Ireland

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Elizabeth Grant. The Highland Lady In Ireland

The Highland Lady in Ireland

Contents

Introduction

Author’s Note

Dramatis Personae

1840

1841

1842

1843

1845

1846

1847

1848

1849

1850

Index

About the Author. THE HIGHLAND LADY IN IRELAND

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Elizabeth Grant

of Rothiemurchus

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William can never be of the consequence his father was, but he will be independant and from his own exertions, and he will have a moral influence from the rectitude of his conduct in very difficult circumstances worth infinitely more in the estimation of good men than any that station alone could give him. John might have run a more brilliant career at home, because more in the eye of the world, than the creditable and lucrative official life he is passing in India but he don’t regret the difference, and he will return young enough to enjoy many cheerful years in his native country. On the girls the blight fell heaviest, the younger girls, for my early indiscretions deserved no light doom,21 and I can only attribute the favour of God in blessing me after many years of distress with such a home as with grateful affection I feel to be mine, to the unfeigned humility with which I repented the unhappy consequences of a faulty education on an unreflecting mind.

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