Lady Victoria Campbell

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to her no happiness in any enterprise which had not
his full approval. She was an old-fashioned believer
in the fifth commandment, and thought it far too
little observed by the youth of her day.
The last year that she was in London she consented
to accompany a member of her family to Westminster
Chapel, to worship with the congregation and hear
the preaching of Dr. Campbell Morgan. Unfortu-
nately it was a day of special celebration, always
destructive to good preaching. The subject was
the place of children in the home and in the nation,
and they were undoubtedly given the uppermost
seat in the preacher's exhortation. Lady Victoria's
companion instinctively felt that one hearer of the
Word was not altogether satisfied. She was fully
prepared for the comment, that there was too much
about our duty to the children, and far too little said
of the duty to the parent, and to parental authority.
At this period " the eight grandchildren in the
Castle," whom she records, were all coming to the
years of discretion, and there were many who were
elsewhere, or not yet of an age to enjoy her society.
Lady Victoria loved her nephews and nieces, even
when not brought closely into touch with their lives ;
and where she had the run of their society her days
were always planned so as to include an hour or more
of their company.
To many her room and her couch became, what
the turret sitting-room was to the elder generation,
who had gone to it to find "Aunt Dot." Lady Victoria
had always a great dislike to closing her door against