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one middle-sized drawing-room, very handsomely fur- 

 nished, into another smaller one, a kind of snuggery or 

 parlour, where we found Mr Matheson at a desk-table 

 writing, and his wife not far off with a book in her 

 hand. 



" We got back to the castle at half-past seven, the 

 dinner hour, and found that a number of people had 

 been assembled to meet us. Most of them must have 



been summoned since two o'clock of that same day 



Then we had Lord Campbell, the Chief -Justice of England, 

 and his daughter, and Mr Scarlett, a son of Lord Abinger. 

 These were staying at the castle. I was next Lord 

 Campbell when the ladies retired, and found him very 

 pleasant and courteous. He was so obliging as to praise 

 the '. Voyage/ and said he had just been reading, with 

 great interest, the account of St Kilda. Meanwhile, the 

 piper in full array was blowing his very life out in the 

 corridor. He was asked ere long into the room, and 

 entered in tremendous puff playing ' The Campbells are 

 coming,' which was thought very clever and appropriate, 

 cbiefly, I suppose, because the said Campbells were just 

 going away. 



"On the morning of Tuesday the 1st of October, we 

 were down stairs soon after six, found all kinds of tea 

 and coffee, breads and venison chops, ready for us hot 

 and hot ; and in a very few minutes after we had set to, 



