74 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
which thought me unworthy to be a 
member,’’ he writes. 
About this time he was a guest for a 
day or two of Earl Morton, at his estate 
Dalmahoy, near Edinburgh. He had 
expected to see an imposing personage 
in the great Chamberlain to the late 
queen Charlotte. What was his relief 
and surprise, then, to see a ‘small, 
slender man, tottering on his feet, 
weaker than a newly hatched part- 
ridge,’? who welcomed him with tears 
in hiseyes. The countess, ‘‘a fair, fresh- 
complexioned woman, with dark, flash- 
ing eyes,’’ wrote her name in his sub- 
scription book, and offered to pay the 
price in advance. The next day he 
gave her a lesson in drawing. 
On his return to Edinburgh he dined 
with Captain Hall, to meet Francis 
Jeffrey. ‘‘Jeffrey is a little man,’’ he 
writes, ‘‘ with a serious face and digni- 
fied air. He looks both shrewd and 
cunning, and talks with so much 
