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Show ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY. Curse Pronounced by Mother of Great Soldier Seemed to Have Adequate Ade-quate Fulfillment. The widow of the great Viscount Dundee married shortly after his death William Livingston of Kilsyth, who had long been in love with her. Dundee's Dun-dee's mother, who considered Livingston Living-ston virtually her son's murderer, pronounced pro-nounced a curse on her daughter-in-law and her husband, praying that God would show the unworthy couple some swift token of his anger. The wedding day of Livingston and Lady Dundee was fraught with bad omens. The bridegroom gave the bride a ring Inscribed, "Yours Till Death," but the ring was lost before the day was over, and the vengeful old Lady Dundee sent as her wedding gift a nightcap, a pair of white gloves and a rope, all these articles typical of a condemned murderer. In October, 1695, it seemed as though the unhappy fate so desired by Lady Dundee fell on her daughter-in-law, who died at Utrecht through a terrible accident. She, her infant son, and her maid were crushed to death through the roof falling in, her husband hus-band being rescued with great difficulty. diffi-culty. The bodies of Lady Kilsyth and her baby were embalmed and brought to Scotland, and in the year 1800 It was the common practice of the inhabitants in-habitants of Kilsyth to go to the vault and see the bodies, which were as perfect per-fect as the hour they were first placed in the coffin. |