Could he have been allowed to pass one or two special laws
for his own protection, there might still have been improvements.
He would like the right to have all intruders thrashed by the
gillies within an inch of their lives; and he would have had a
clause in his lease against the making of any new roads, opening
of footpaths, or building of bridges. He had seen somewhere in
print a plan for running a railway from Callender to Fort Augustus
right through Crummie-Toddie! If this were done in his time the
beauty of the world would be over. Reginald Dobbes was a man of
about forty, strong, active, well-made, about five feet ten in
height, with broad shoulders and greatly-developed legs. He was
not a handsome man, having a protrusive nose, high cheek-bones,
and long upper lip; but there was a manliness about his face which
redeemed it. Sport was the business of his life, and he thoroughly
despised all who were not sportsmen. He fished and shot and hunted
during nine or ten months of the year, filling up his time as best
he might with coaching polo, and pigeon-shooting.
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