Who could have foreseen this tragic event ?" "Do you know anything about this peerage ?" "Not till latterly.

I never took it seriously, like Robert.

I looked upon it as a family fiction.

I understand that the Turrald barony was a barony by writ--whatever that may be.

The point is that if my brother had lived to restore it, the title, on his death, would have descended to his only daughter, if she had been born in wedlock.