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'It was your own fault, Henrietta, that we did not meet oftener. You have always refused my invitations sometimes without much ceremony, said Mrs. Fordyce rather reproachfully. 'Pride, my dear Scotch pride; that is what kept me vegetating in this awful place when my heart was in the Highlands. Tell me about Gairloch and Helensburgh, and dear old Glasgow.
It was a very thankful party that sat down that evening to meat in the Hotel at Gairloch. And perhaps, although the thing was new in the family, no one was much surprised when Fleeming said grace over that meal. Thenceforward he continued to observe the form, so that there was kept alive in his house a grateful memory of peril and deliverance.
The belief in the existence of the 'Water Cow' is not even yet extinct in the Highlands. In Mr. J.H. Dixon's book on Gairloch, 8vo, 1886, it is said the monster lives or did live in Loch na Beiste! This transaction formed an element in a case before the Crofters' Commission at Aultbea in May 1888. Daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon.
He is so handsome, so noble, and so rich, he might marry whom he willed. He has no relatives to be angry over it; and he says, if it pleases me, we can buy a place in Scotland, on the very shores of the Gairloch. Think of that, Isabel; think of your exiled Henrietta returning to that. God is too good, and I am too happy.
"You must write to us as soon as you get home," he said, at parting "A letter will find us this week at Gairloch I shall cruise about a bit longer." I made no reply for the moment. He had no idea that I was not going home at all, nor did I intend to tell him. "You shall hear from me as soon as possible," I said at last, evasively " I shall be very busy for a time " He laughed. "Oh, I know!
From William Mackenzie, Esquire, of Gairloch, to George Mackenzie, Esquire, of Avoch, dated Leamington, 24th May 1856. When in Stockholm in 1824, Lord Blomfield, our Minister there, did me the honour of presenting me to the King, Bernadotte, father of the present King of Sweden.
It was a very thankful party that sat down that evening to meat in the hotel at Gairloch. And perhaps, although the thing was new in the family, no one was much surprised when Fleeming said grace over that meal. Thenceforward he continued to observe the form, so that there was kept alive in his house a grateful memory of peril and deliverance.
Now, I will tell thee a thing that happened; I will tell thee just the bare facts; I will put nothing to, nor take anything away from them. "'Tis, five years ago the first day of last June. I was in Stornoway in the Lews, and I was going to the Gairloch Preachings. It was rough, cheerless weather, and all the fishing fleet were at anchor for the night, with no prospect of a fishing.
'To the backbone. She was born at Shandon, on the Gairloch, and we went to Brussels to school together. She never came back married at eighteen, Gladys, and only a wife five years. She has had a hard life, said Mrs. Fordyce, and her eyes grew dim over the memories of her youth. 'Can we go soon, then? asked Gladys fervently; 'just when they are finishing the house?
He fished the streams of Uredale and Swaledale; thence he pushed on to the Eden and the waters of the Border, to Perthshire, to Loch Maree, Gairloch, Skye, and the far north. When September came, he set off for rambles in Germany. He travelled on foot, delighting in the discovery of nooks and corners that were not mentioned in the guidebooks.
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