Memoir of the Chisholm

62 RESIDES AT ERCHLESS CASTLE.
and his music as well as his house. Mrs.
has a son herself about Chisholm's age,
and she and I agreed in admiring the beauti-
ful picture the whole afforded of the owner's
habits and mind. She joined in earnestly
wishing that, at the same time of life, our
sons' apartments might vie with Chisholm's ;
and I must tell you that the example was not
lost upon . His tutor tells me he was
greatly struck with the affection and respect
all his servants spoke of him, and with the
evidence of useful pursuit and elegant em-
ployment which the picture without and
within the castle presented. Indeed, my
dear Lady Ramsay, you are a happy mother
to have such a son. The old ladies were
much against one thing the servants told us
he planned, moving the stables ; we think it is
such a distance for his friends 1 horses to come,
that it is a great advantage to have them so
close at hand, and that if he plants ivy and Ayr-
shire roses against the walls, makes what he has
of stabling modern, and plants a dense grove
and shrubbery between them and the castle,
he will never wish to have them removed
further. Also we hope he will not add to
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