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." "No Armenian," said Belle; "but I want to ask a question: pray are all people of that man's name either rogues or fools ?" "It is impossible for me to say, Belle, this person being the only one of the name I have ever personally known.

I suppose there are good and bad, clever and foolish, amongst them, as amongst all large bodies of people; however, after the tribe had been governed for upwards of thirty years by such a person as old Fraser, it were no wonder if the greater part had become either rogues or fools: he was a ruthless tyrant, Belle, over his own people, and by his cruelty and rapaciousness must either have stunned them into an apathy approaching to idiocy, or made them artful knaves in their own defence.

The qualities of parents are generally transmitted to their descendants--the progeny of trained pointers are almost sure to point, even without being taught: if, therefore, all Frasers are either rogues or fools, as this person seems to insinuate, it is little to be wondered at, their parents or grandparents having been in the training- school of old Fraser! but enough of the old tyrant and his slaves.

Belle, prepare tea this moment, or dread my anger.