"Yes, but Murat was still the son of a pastry-cook, and though he was certainly good at the sabre, and cut his way to a throne, still.

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." Lord! what fools there are in the world; but as no one can be thought anything of in this world without a pedigree, the writer will now give a pedigree for Murat, of a very different character from the cow-stealing one of Scott, but such a one as the proudest he might not disdain to claim.

Scott was descended from the old cow-stealers of Buccleuch--was he?
Good! and Murat was descended from the old Moors of Spain, from the Abencerages (sons of the saddle) of Granada.

The name Murat is Arabic, and is the same as Murad (Le Desire, or the wished-for one).