DAVID ARNOT By Barrington, Michael BY THE SAME AUTHOR: THE KINGS FOOL THE INVISIBLE ARMY THE LADY OF TRIPOLI AND GRAHAME OF CLAVER HOUSE VISCOUNT DUNDEE, 1648-1689 A MILITARY BIOGRAPHY CONTENTS: PREFACE PART ONE MASTER AND PUPIL THE CHOICE PART TWO THE LADY OF Rusco A MIRACLE LIKING WHO shall remember thee when thou art dead, and who shall pray for thee? asks one whose written words upon the vanity of earthly glory have weathered the storms of centuries Death is the end of all, and mans life suddenly passeth away like a shadow. Thus, sombrely exhorting his readers, the ancient sage meditated upon the piteous and pathetic fragility of the strength and intellect which, even in the vigour of triumphant joy, may be stricken, turned to dust, and buried in oblivion, His lamentation came echoing across time and space to me, when, questing in old note hooks of a Scottish lawyer, eminent in the time of Charles the Second, came haphazard upon several amaing cases, vibrating with life, though...

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