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 250 Court, "the crowd was so great," writes Horace Walpole, "that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her." As she passed down to Scotland, "seven hundred people," it was reported, "sat up all night in and about an inn in Yorkshire to see her get into her post-chaise next morning." Here, too, is a small but lovely picture of her sister, the Countess of Coventry. On her going down to her husband's

THE HALL, INVERARY CASTLE.

country seat near Worcester, "a shoemaker in that town got two guineas and a half by showing a shoe that he was making for her at a penny a-piece." In striking contrast with the two sisters are many of the portraits which hang on the walls. It is a strange company which is brought together: Mary, Queen of Scots, and her half-sister, a Countess of Argyle; Oliver Cromwell; the Marquis of Argyle, and just below him Charles II., who sent him to the scaffold; the earl, his son, who was beheaded by James II.; and