The Life of Sir Halliday Macartney, K. C: M. Commander of LI Hung Chang's Trained Force in the Taeping Rebellion, Founder of the First Chinese ... Chinese Legation in London (Classic Reprint)

Sir Halliday Macartney was on the 22nd of A pril, 1906. Hearing that I was spending my Easter holidays at Dumfries with my daughter Mrs. Taylor and her two girls, he wrote pressing us to visit him at Kenbank, where he had then been settled for some four months ;so on the day named we made our way to New Galloway Station, where he sent the carriage to meet us. It was one of those dull, grey days that are just a little too common in the south-west of Scotland, but the promise of spring was abroad, for green buds stippled the woodlands, and primroses broidered the banks, and we vastly enjoyed the drive for five miles, by the marge of the beautiful Loch Ken, and then for another five miles past Kenmuir Castle, bosomed in old trees, but towering above them in baronial pride and strength one of the prototypes of TuU y-V eolan it is supposed to have been with the green walk and its high holly hedge in the garden along which Ruskin was fain to stroll, through the trim little village of New Galloway, and on by the water of Ken to St. John s Town of Dairy, half a mile beyond which stands Kenbank, Sir Halliday Macartney sthen
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