This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...his head, gave him the choice of death or signing a paper promising to marry her. For some years--so long as her beauty remained and she was admired in society--their life was not unhappy. But after twenty years of married life and when she had borne him a family, she took to drink, and great unhappiness ensued from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...his head, gave him the choice of death or signing a paper promising to marry her. For some years--so long as her beauty remained and she was admired in society--their life was not unhappy. But after twenty years of married life and when she had borne him a family, she took to drink, and great unhappiness ensued from her violent temper. Grange, who was one of the judges of the Court of Session, was himself a man whose life alternated between violent outbreaks of licentiousness and fits of religious repentance and melancholy. A judicial separation had been agreed upon, but Lady Grange, according to her husband's account, did not observe the conditions of it, was constantly intruding herself into his house and slandering him to the neighbours. After the lady's abduction, her friends for a year or two could obtain no information about her, and when eventually they learned what had happened, it was too late to help her, for mortification and the hardships she had undergone co-operated with her intemperate habits to unsettle her reason. Seventeen years later she died. Dickson's Close is worthy of remembrance as being the place of residence of David Allan, "the Scottish Hogarth," and the illustrator of Ramsay and Burns. He succeeded Runciman as instructor of the Academy, established by the Board of Trustees, later the Board of Manufactures. In Cant's Close, named, according to some, after Adam Cant, who was Dean of Guild in 1450, but according to others, and more probably, after Andrew Cant, Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1675-85 and the ancestor of the great Konigsberg metaphysician, the buildings were mainly ecclesiastical, one in particular being noticeable with its gateway and flight of steps, and with its curious double window project...
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