I'd be good for his impoverished acres

frame-up

to do the dirty on smb

to hand in one's checks

to raise subscription

Baluchistan a province in Western Pakistan, on the Arabic Sea, and the Iranian and Afgani borders. Being on trade routes from India to the Middle West, Baluchistan has florished since ancient times. Nominally part of larger empires, it usually enjoyed autonomy until Britain won control (19th century). In 1947 it became part of Pakistan.

"Protesting overmuch"

gewgaw

to put a good face on it

poor devil

"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind" the reference is to the poem by David Garrick, Epiloque on Quitting the Theatre, 1776.

David Garrick (1717-1779), an English actor and poet; from 1747 to 1776 the manager of Drury Lane Theatre.