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Rob Roy

INTRODUCTION---( 1829) When the author projected this further encroachment on the patience of an indulgent public, he was at some loss for a title; a good name being very nearly of as much consequence in literature as in life
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The information for the Crown hints that her decease might be the consequence of the usage she received.

But there is a general report that she died of the small-pox.

In the meantime, James Mhor, or Drummond, fell into the hands of justice.

He was considered as the instigator of the whole affair.

Nay, the deceased had informed her friends that on the night of her being carried off, Robin Oig, moved by her cries and tears, had partly consented to let her return, when James came up with a pistol in his hand, and, asking whether he was such a coward as to relinquish an enterprise in which he had risked everything to procure him a fortune, in a manner compelled his brother to persevere.


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