Lady Victoria Campbell

310 "REST AND BE THANKFUL"
In that spirit she was able to continue her labours
through the scenes haunted with thronging memories :
" Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ;
Take, — I give it willingly ;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me."
Henceforward there was a more wistful outlook
for " the rest that remaineth," and her thoughts were
more detached from the many claims of her outward
occupations.
Her advisers were pressing on her the desirability
of winters passed in regions other than the islands.
Warmer climates were recommended, but the real
object aimed at was to limit the sphere which called
upon her energies. She went again to Kaiserwerth,
in Germany, and two winters were spent with her
niece Lesley Clough Taylor, the one at Geneva and
the last in Rome. When Lady Victoria had made
up her mind to this adventure, she was filled with
amusement as to the probable interpretation which
would be put upon her " going to Rome." Lord
Guthrie did not fail to remind her that in pre-
Reformation days a Victoria Campbell, daughter of
an Earl of Argyll, had been a nun, and another might
follow the ancestral example. Both winters she
thoroughly enjoyed. She found jeunes -piles to
address at Geneva, and Waldensians in Rome to
support. " Decided against Vatican," which appears
in the daily notes, alluded to an expedition to see
its wonders, and not its Head. The last record in the