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Amidst all this, with a too earnest and painful application, I set myself to do what had never been done, to unite the color and effect of nature to the material accuracy of the photograph. My first sight of Loch Awe. Arrival at Innistrynich. Our domestic life. Difficulties about provisions. A kitchen garden.
Derwentwater. I take lessons from Mr. J. P. Pettitt. Ulleswater. My horse Turf. Greenock, a discovery. My unsettled cousin. Glasgow. Loch Lomond. Inverary. Loch Awe. Inishail. Innistrynich. Oban. A sailing excursion. Mull and Ulva. Solitary reading. The question of a profession now required an immediate decision.
He wrote to say what a satisfaction it was to think that his aunt had seen him only a few hours before the attack, and when it came she must have felt him so near to her. I remember an incident which took place on the day we took leave of Aunt Mary to go to Innistrynich; she had invited two of her nieces to lunch with us at "The Jumps."
In the summer of 1875 he received from the new owner of Innistrynich an invitation to revisit the dear island. Nothing could have given him more pleasure. Mr. Muir gave him all the details of the improvements he had effected, but said: "I retained the old cottage, with its twelve small apartments, and added a new front, containing five rooms. He is now getting frail, and not very able to work.
Small immediate results of the expedition to the Highlands. Unsuitable system of work. Loss of time. I rent the house and island of Innistrynich. My dread of marriage and the reasons for it. Notwithstanding this I make an offer and am refused. Two young ladies of my acquaintance. Idea of a foreign marriage. Its inconveniences. Decision to ask for the hand of Mdlle. Gindriez.
If we arrived early we would visit the ruins and the island; if too late, it would be reserved for the following morning, as we intended to spend the night at the inn, and to resume our drive in time to be back at Innistrynich for dinner.
Whitney, offered him hospitality, which he gratefully accepted, till everything was cleared out of Innistrynich and on its way to Sens, in the department of the Yonne, where our new residence was to be. On his way to Sens, Gilbert stayed a few days with his aunts, but left them for a short time, and concluded the sale of his property to Henry Milne.
These were the plain facts; what my aunt imagined is beyond guessing. Before my marriage I went to Loch Awe, to prepare the house on Innistrynich and furnish it. Of all strange places in the world for a young Parisienne to be brought to, surely Innistrynich was the least suitable! My way in those days was the usual human way of thinking, that what is good for one's self is good for everybody else.
Thomas Hamerton said to his nephew, "Susan loves you much, no doubt, but Eugenie is A1 for her." Visits from friends and relatives. A Frenchman in the Highlands. Project of buying the island of Innistrynich.
We had been awaiting M. Souverain for some days, no date having been fixed, when one morning our attention was aroused by loud and prolonged shouts coming from that part of the road which affords a view of Innistrynich, before descending to the bay.
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