Lady Victoria Campbell

CHAPTER_VI
" ONE, THE MARCH IN GOD BEGUN "
" I cannot rest by day or night
Till all men's burdens have grown light,
Till round my neck their sins are hung,
Till their dull sorrows loose my tongue.
I will not rest by night or day
Till I have flung my life away,
In every stream, that whoso will
With sympathy his cruse may fill."
To Lady Victoria the return to Cannes, after an in-
terval fraught with so much growth in her own life,
and which had brought such changes in the circle of
her home, made a great landmark in the highway of
her life.
Cannes, to her, had many associations with the
past. To others of the family it was their first
experience of a foreign country, and the first intro-
duction to scenery out of their native land. However
determined they were to cherish their national
prejudices, and to leave their hearts in the high-
lands, they could not altogether escape a conviction
that sunny France had a different order of merit
from their misty west. The Villa Isola Bella was
worthy of its name, built on one of the terraced
heights of the hills that surround Cannes, and sheltered
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