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married and single, people who are generally known 

 as prominent citizens not being present. Perhaps 

 this was not altogether an unfortunate event, as the 

 British Plenipotentiary is understood to be a con- 

 noisseur in the matter of female beauty." Of the 

 many handsome and attractive ladies present at 

 that dinner, I should be inclined to award the 

 palm to Mrs. Bankes, one of Sir David's many 

 pretty daughters, the youngest of whom, Isabel, 

 married the late Sir George Kirkpatrick, who 

 afterwards became Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. 

 Sir David Macpherson, who was held in deservedly 

 high esteem by all who knew him, died at sea on 

 his way out to Canada nine years afterwards, viz. 

 in August 1896. 



The next day, December 30, we all — Sir David in 

 one carriage with the Chief, and Bergne and I follow- 

 ing in another — drove into Toronto and visited the 

 Education Department, the Toronto University, and 

 the Osgoode House, a name given to the Toronto 

 Law Courts. At the latter place we arrived un- 

 expectedly, and startled a stray judge, Mr. Gait, 

 brother to Sir Alexander Gait, who obligingly 

 undertook to show us the courts. ' The first door he 

 opened led to — well, not a court of justice, and the 

 poor old gentleman's confusion and embarrassment 



