Another Opportunity

An old gentleman named Scott was engaged in the “affair of the ‘15 “ (the Rebellion of 1715), and with some great difficulty was saved from the gallows, by the interceesion of the Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth. Her grace, who maintained considerable authority over her clan, sent for the object of her intercession, and warning him of the risk which he had run, and the trouble she had taken on his account, wound up her lecture by intimating that, in case of such disloyalty again, he was not to
expect her interest in hiss favour.

“As it please your grace,” said the stout old Tory, “I fear I am too old to see another opportunity.”

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