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hoping it would be like that when we start, as it 

 would be sure to last till we got home. When, lo 

 and behold, this morning there is by far the highest 

 ■wind and sea I have yet seen. The spray is fljdng 

 right over the rocks, once up to where Fritz got over 

 the wall by the bathing-place. Rain in sheets. The 

 ' Drummond Castle ' will have an awful time of it. 

 No hope of a letter to-day. 



Maixh 16. 



Letters, such jolly good gossip that I feel disposed 

 to follow the example of the ' distinguished man ' 

 who lived apart from his wife because he so much 

 eujojxd her letters. And yet I am like a hound 

 straining at his leash to get away. 



I caiviot read what it is that York Powell is going 

 to have designed for us, it looks like ' booky flash.' ^ 



.... Bj' the time you get this, it will only be 

 another fortnight before you get me, and I believe 

 3"ou -R-ill get me in a wonderfully restored state of 

 health. 



March 17. 



The weather is still the same. Tremendous wind 

 and perpetual squalls of rain, ' the sea and the waves 

 roaring,' also ' men's hearts faihng them for fear,' for 

 the occupants of the rooms we used to have never 

 went to bed last night. 



This morning an EngUsh man-of-war ran in for 

 refuge, but had to run out again before the return 

 salutes had been fired, as her anchors could not hold, 

 and an odd accident happened. At the 18-minute 



' It was ' book-plate.' 



