It ig something of a coincidence that almost at the very moment when the husband of one Princess Louise succeeds te a dukedom, the darhter of another Princess Loui ranted the prospect right to sneeeed in the absence of brodie a similar honour. The Duke of Fife has no male heir, and had provision not eon nigdle for the descent of the title to daughter not only his recently created Dukedom bu all his Scottish titles would heevne extinct on his death, unless a son had in the meantime been born to him. The founder of the fatil a shrewd Scottish peasant named Duff, who made a fortune, which was augmented by his immediate successors. The grandson on obwere taining "lat Eurldoi assumed the titles of Viscount "Macdutt ati of, Fife a
descended from the old Th in the fond hope of belie that, he whom on \s immortalized by Sh: peace: bit ter of fact not, the suuallest confpe can be. traced" he tween the two fam The Dutt have property in Fife nor th the country. He exetedingly popular in society, and, no one%grudges him his good fortune,
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