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King and the Estates of Parliament;’ they were tried, found guilty of high
treason, sentenced to the forfeiture of all their property, and so reduced
to the sad and miserable condition of beggars, homeless and penniless, in the
very place where they had so long lorded it as feudal tyrants.
A younger scion of this family, however, appears at a little later period tb
have retrieved to some extent the sad fortunes of his house. Returning from
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France-whence he had to flee for having slain in a duel a favourite of the
King, who had given him great provocatioa-to his native pIace, he chanced
shortly thereafter to meet, at the house of a mutual friend, with a certain
Isabella Fowler, the onIy child of a wealthy couple in the neighbourhood, and
heiress of all their possessions. Miss Fowler, or as she is better known by
the sobriquet of TiBk 0’ fhe Glen, had no pretensions to beauty : rather, we
should say, in the language of these days, a plain-Iooking young lady, but
whose plainness in this respect was wonderfully compensated for by a quick,
shrewd intelligence, and brisk, sprightly piquancy of manner, which are
not without their attractions, and often interest and ch-ann when a pretty face
and fine form would fail. Besides, she was ‘a weel-tochered lass,’ and that
in those times, as we11 as in ours, covered a multitude of sins, so that Tibbie,
as might have been expected in the-circumstances, had a great number of
suitors
