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to receive the heart of her husband, which she embalmed 

 in an ivory casket, and kept beside her until the abbey 

 should be ready to enshrine it, and where the true wife was 

 afterwards laid with the precious memento upon her breast j 

 of the striking view of mountain and sea caught from the 

 crest of Whinnyhill ; of the room in Dumfries known as 

 Prince Charlie's, in remembrance of a visit that unfortunate 

 gentleman paid to the town, which he looted to a heavy 

 tune ; or of the works and ways of modern Dumfries. 



At the railway station, the only station probably in the 

 country planted in the midst of a blooming nursery garden, 

 the train is waiting to bear us by Gretna Green across the 

 Border to Carlisle, and thence by midnight express through 

 Cumberland to the South, 



