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Light Horse to attend, to take part in the procession ; 

 but when we heard that we should be massed with 

 the Yeomanry in the Green Park, we gave it up, as 

 the expense would have been very considerable. 

 Pat Carnegy had made arrangements to mount the 

 Forfar troop on horses which had been ridden in 

 Middlesex Yeomanry, but had to cancel his agree- 

 ment. 



We dined with the Elliots, and started to see 

 the illuminations. Isobel, Hugh Elliot and I got 

 on very well, up Whitehall, Pall Mall, to top of 

 St. James's Street, where we met the crowd from 

 Piccadilly, and it was a struggle. Hugh got separ- 

 ated from us, and I never saw him again till next 

 morning. Isobel hung on to me, and was almost 

 frightened. The heat was suffocating. We got to the 

 corner of the Berkeley Hotel, and found John Gilmour 

 and all his family. He had just been made a baronet. 

 We rested there till we recovered after our struggles, 

 then went through Berkeley Square to Park Lane 

 and Hyde Park Corner, where I put Isobel in a 

 hansom, and she went to Smith's Square and I 

 walked to barracks. 



After the procession in the morning the mounted 

 troops went to Hyde Park to feed the horses. The 

 2nd Life Guards arranged with Whiteley to provide 

 refreshments for all of them. His vans were placed 

 all over the Park. In the barracks every available 

 space had a table covered with glasses and jugs of 

 champagne. 



24th. — Went to stay with Charlie Babington at 



