Lady Victoria Campbell

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showed signs of grave illness, and no treatment
arrested the mischief, the cause of which was not
properly diagnosed.
It would serve no purpose to revive the memories,
or recall the sufferings through which she passed.
The malady grew daily worse, the symptoms more
distressing, and the medical skill was at fault to relieve
or to cure. It is sufficient to say that the symptoms
were treated as, and believed to be, of an acute
gastric nature, while the real cause of the disease was
a severe abscess in the lung.
The Duchess was at the time much engrossed by
the last illness of her mother, Harriet, Duchess of
Sutherland, and she did not take the alarm which
was felt from the first by Lady Emma Campbell,
who was that autumn, according to her usual custom,
staying at the Castle.
Lady Emma Campbell, the younger and only
surviving sister of the Duke of Argyll, had always
been closely associated with the family life, and she
loved her nephews and nieces with the most complete
devotion. After the death of her father, she made her
home in Edinburgh, and it was soon the centre of
much work and many interests.
In appearance Lady Emma was not like her
brother. She had brown hair, and her face, with
its beaming smile and large blue eyes, closely re-
sembled her mother, Joan Glassell. Lady Emma
never had very strong health, and her energies
were, at an early age limited by a strength which
never bore being overtasked.