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coronet, itself to be regilt in its turn with a less 
sinister lustre by him— 
“ The State’s whole thunder born to wield, 
And shake alike the senate and the field 
who baffled Walpole in the cabinet, and conquered with 
Marlborough at families, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet;— 
and, last,—how at that present moment, even while we 
were speaking, the heir to all these noble reminiscences, 
the young chief of this princely line, had already won, 
at the age of twenty-nine, by the manly vigour of his 
intellect and his hereditary independence of character, 
the confidence of his fellow-countrymen, and a seat at 
the council board of his sovereign. 
Having thus duly indoctrinated Sigurdr with the 
Sagas of the family, as soon as we had crossed the lake 
I took him up to the Castle, and acted cicerone to its 
pictures and heirlooms,—the gleaming stands of mus¬ 
kets, whose fire wrought such fatal ruin at Culloden;—- 
the portrait of the beautiful Irish girl, twice a Duchess, 
whom the cunning artist has painted with a sunflower 
that turns from the sun to look at her;—Gillespie 
Grumach himself, as grim and sinister-looking as in life; 
—the trumpets to carry the voice from the hall-door to 
Dunnaquaich ;—the fair beech avenues, planted by the 
