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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Speaking
of
another
neighbouring
laird,
they
said
he
had
gone,
like
the
rest
of
them,
to
Edinburgh,
left
his
lands
and
his
own
people,
spending
his
money
where
it
brought
him
not
any
esteem,
so
that
he
was
of
no
value
either
at
home
or
abroad.
We
mentioned
Rob
Roy,
and
the
eyes
of
all
glistened;
even
the
lady
of
the
house,
who
was
very
diffident,
and
no
great
talker,
exclaimed,
"He
was
a
good
man,
Rob
Roy!
he
had
been
dead
only
about
eighty
years,
had
lived
in
the
next
farm,
which
belonged
to
him,
and
there
his
bones
were
laid."[95]
He
was
a
famous
swordsman.
Having
an
arm
much
longer
than
other
men,
he
had
a
greater
command
with
his
sword.
As
a
proof
of
the
length
of
his
arm,
they
told
us
that
he
could
garter
his
tartan
stockings
below
the
knee
without
stooping,
and
added
a
dozen
different
stories
of
single
combats,
which
he
had
fought,
all
in
perfect
good-humour,
merely
to
prove
his
prowess.
I
daresay
they
had
stories
of
this
kind
which
would
hardly
have
been
exhausted
in
the
long
evenings
of
a
whole
December
week,
Rob
Roy
being
as
famous
here
as
ever
Robin
Hood
was
in
the
Forest
of
Sherwood;
he
also
robbed
from
the
rich,
giving
to
the
poor,
and
defending
them
from
oppression.
They
tell
of
his
confining
the
factor
of
the
Duke
of
Montrose
in
one
of
the
islands
of
Loch
Ketterine,
after
having
taken
his
money
from
him--the
Duke's
rents--in
open
day,
while
they
were
sitting
at
table.
He
was
a
formidable
enemy
of
the
Duke,
but
being
a
small
laird
against
a
greater,
was
overcome
at
last,
and
forced
to
resign
all
his
lands
on
the
Braes
of
Loch
Lomond,
including
the
caves
which
we
visited,
on
account
of
the
money
he
had
taken
from
the
Duke
and
could
not
repay.
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