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comes on; this evening I had to excuse myself from 

 a gathering at Lady Hunter's, and came home intending 

 to go at once to bed; but I lay down on my sofa for 

 a moment, fell asleep, and did not wake till after midnight, 

 when I found myself both cold and hungry. I have taken 

 some food and now will rest, though no longer sleepy, 

 for to-morrow I go to Earl Morton's, where I wish, at- 

 least, to keep awake. 



Dalmahoyj eight miles from E dinbur gh, December 27, 

 Wednesday. I am now seated at a little table in the 

 Yellow Bedchamber at E arl Morto n's, and will give an 

 account of my day. Affer my breakfast, not anxious to 

 begin another Pheasant, I did some writing and paid some 

 visits, returned to my lodgings and packed a box for 

 America with various gifts, some mementos I had received, 

 and several newspapers, when Lord Morton's carriage was 

 announced. My porte-feuille and valise were carried 

 down, and I followed them and entered a large carriage 

 lined with purple morocco ; never was I in so comfortable 

 a conveyance before ; the ship that under easy sail glides 

 slowly on an even sea has a more fatiguing motion; I 

 might have been in a swinging hammock. We passed 

 the castle, through Charlotte Square, and out on the 

 Glasgow road for eight miles, all so swiftly that my 

 watch had bar&Lv changed the time from one hour to 

 another whenithe porter pushed open the gate of Dal- 

 mahoy. I npw began to think of my meeting with the 

 man who had been great Chamberlain to the late Queen 

 Charlotte. I did not so much mind meeting the Countess, 

 for I had become assured of her sweetness of disposition 

 when we had met on previous occasions, but the Cham- 

 berlain I could not help < dreading to encounter. This, 

 however, did not prevent the carriage from proceeding 

 smoothly round a great circle, neither did it prevent 

 me from seeing a large, square, half Gothic building with' 

 two turrets, ornamented with great lions, and all the signs 



