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Gladstone's real position whilst the Midlothian contest remained in suspense. We heard, indeed, from a private source, that the company assembled with Mr. Gladstone under Lord Rosebery's roof at Dalmeny had "jumped for joy" when the telegram announcing the Leeds result had arrived. But that was all. A few days later Midlothian also spoke, and in turn elected Mr. Gladstone as its representative.
Sale of library Letters from Shetland and Aberdeen Winter illness Charities Recovery Magazine articles again Literary executorship of late Mr Edward Ellice Rev. James White of Methlick Last illness and death Concluding remarks Burial at Dalmeny. Would that in biography, as in romance, the story might end at its brightest point!
Oh, Christina, you were!..." It was true, too, a French artist who had come to Scotland to decorate Lord Rosebery's ballroom at Dalmeny had pestered Mrs. Melville to sit to him, and had painted a portrait of her which had been bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Destroyers, as before, circled about us, and there was no hint of trouble from a Hun submarine. On our boat was Lord Dalmeny, a King's Messenger, carrying dispatches from the front. He asked me how I had liked the "show." It is so that nearly all British soldiers refer to the war. They had earned their rest, those laddies who were going home to Britain.
It had been at first intended that he should be buried in the Dean Cemetery, where his mother and his first wife were interred, and where his valued friend William Brodie had erected a beautiful monument over their graves; but after orders had been given to this effect, his wife became strongly possessed by the wish to carry out his repeatedly expressed injunction to have him laid in Dalmeny.
In his earlier life he would also spare no trouble in endeavouring to help these unfortunates to help themselves. As he grew old he was less zealous, probably from being less sanguine of success, in this service. On Saturday the 13th of August the mortal remains of John Hill Burton were laid beside those of his infant child in the lovely little churchyard of Dalmeny.
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