Lady Victoria Campbell

294 NIGHEAN AN DIUC
them all, and was often possessed with an unnecessary
anxiety as to their welfare and future.
By none of them is she forgotten, and the example
of devoted service was a thing which never passed
from the possession of those who had both seen,
and been called to share it.
It was right that she should have this house, and
she used every inch of its wall spaces ; but her
affections lingered away in the townships of the west-
end of the island, where she had begun her work,
and experimented on and experienced all manner
of cottage homes, and become one with the Macdiar-
mid family in Island House. Those were the days
when the unknown future was yet before her. In
" fear and doubt " she had gone on her way. No
good thing had failed her, the " very much land "
had become her own, through faith and works.
To Lady Mary Glyn.
1897.
Archie has had such a reception in Tiree ; I
feel it worth all one has gone through with and
for them. Land League need never have been.
" If thou hadst but known," comes to me so
often !
To the same.
BlJNESSAN.
Perhaps it is as well in some ways this has
grown to be the place of the most unceasing work.
I have to set meal-times, rest-times, aside as little