Lady Victoria Campbell

40 FKOM DEATH UNTO LIFE
to me) your Heavenly Father has laid out for you.
Very quiet, unobtrusive work, but very high and holy ;
— the gentle, loving influence which shall comfort
and help all around you, and in doing which your own
soul will be brought into nearer communion with
your loving Saviour. He will help and comfort you
while He makes you a comfort to others."
The last of this band of sisters, with their gentle
piety, their quiet home, their interest in the two
adventurous members of their family, " Pock and
Susie," had all passed away before Lady Victoria's
death. In the brilliant pages of Miss Thorneycroft
Fowler's " Isabel Carnaby " a portrait of Miss
Georgina's personality and manner of speech may be
traced.
It would be hard to reconstruct the early Victorian
characters, the refinement, the talents, and, in the
one instance, the rare gifts of mind, which were
found among them. Their interests were closely woven
in with the family which brought so much colour
and life into their own quietly ordered lives, and their
influence and home were among the things which
contributed to Lady Victoria's happiness when a child
at Brighton.
It was in the midst of this happy home life at
Inveraray that Lady Victoria contracted the severe
illness which so nearly cost her her life. Hitherto,
she had been peculiarly healthy, considering the
restraints of her disablement, and nothing more
serious than the usual maladies of childhood had
troubled her. During the autumn of 1868 she