Chapter 11. LORD DATED DIRRY-MOIR.

Otago Witness, Issue 931, 2 October 1869, Page 20

Chapter 11. LORD DATED DIRRY-MOIR.

i. Linnosus Lord Olancharlie had not always been old and proscribed ; he had had hia phase of youth and passion. We know from Harrison and Pride that Cromwell, when young, loved women and pleasure, a taste which, attimea(anotherreading of the text, " Woman ''), betokens a seditious man. Distrust the loosely-clasped girdle. Male pracinctum juvenem cavetr. Lord Olanoharlie, like Cromwell, hod had his wild hours and his irregularities. He was known to have had a natural child, a son. This son, born into the world at the moment when the republic had died, made his entry into England as his father was going into exile. Honoe he had never seen his father. This bastard of Lord Olancharlio had grown up as page at the oourt of Charles 11. He was styled Lord David Dirry-Moir : he was a lord by courtesy, his mother being & woman of quality. That mother, while Lord Olauoharlia was becoming an owl in Switzerland, mado up her mind, being a beauty, to give over sulking, and was forgiven for that Goth, her first lovor, by one undeniably polished and at the same time a royaliat,— for it wae the king. She had boen for a short lime the mistrossof Charles 11., sufficiently long to have made His Majesty—who was delighted to have won so pretty ft woman from tho republie— beatow on the little Lord David, the son of his conquest, the offioe of keoper of the atiok. which made that bastard offioer, boarded at the king's expense, by a natural revulsion of feeling an ardent adherent of the Stuart*. Lord David iraa for some time on* of the hundred, tod JHTioty weiring ih* grettiwotd,

pensipners,' ! Wifi£ fceda'me^onetVoif $msPrs I besides being one of the- noblo company insfitu^ed; f .byf Henry , ; yXIIi , a*, a /body- , guard j ttie privilege of laying |he disnes on 'the king's table. , THus 1 it waa that, whilst his father was ; growing »grey in exile, Lord David prospered under Charles ll.' .Tvotf'. T votf' •'' "•* '"* r ' r * - ' » After -which he prospered under James 11., i The king is dead. , Long live the king ! It is the non deficit dlfer', aiireUs. It was on the v accession of the Duke of York that he bbtained permission to call himself David Lord Dirry-Moir, from an estate which his mother,' who had just died, had left him, in that great forest of Scotland where is found the krag, a bird ' which scoops out a nest with his beak in the trunk of the oak.