Lady Victoria Campbell

"PASTORS AND MASTERS" 109
affected the Duchess's already shattered health ; she
failed steadily from that date till the end.
The Duke removed his household for the winter
to Rosneath Castle, a return which was an unmixed
joy to the members of the family, who had not for
many years revisited the home of their early youth,
and the centre of their devoted affections.
Among the friendships which were strengthened
and renewed by the return to Rosneath, was the one
with the widow of the Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Row.
Mrs. Campbell and her family were living at the house
where Dr. Campbell had died. Achnashie, on the
Gareloch, was, what its name denotes, " the field of
peace," and Lady Victoria found much comfort
in the sagacity and warm-hearted love of Mrs. Camp-
bell, and in the friendship of her daughter, Margaret.
To this last she writes, after the winter had
passed : —
I am so very glad to know your mother and
yourself. It is amongst the very pleasant things
of this last winter, and I feel in you I have made
a friend for life, for your own sake, but the beginning
of my f eeling was your being your father's daughter.
He is one of the causes which made me look on
Rosneath as a corner of the Holy Land, and, as I tell
you, the verse which always comes to my mind
in connection with him is this, "He being dead,
yet speaketh." I read both the pamphlets, and
think them, as I think all his writings, beauti-
ful.