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interesting objects around the Castle, so dear to chivalry, and eenius of Shakespeare and many a minor bard, and I promised myself

a day of unclouded felicity--but the captain was ordered to be on

duty,--and the croas so rude and riotous, that I had no enjoyrin at the little respect paid by the

rabble to the virtues of the departed monarch, I would fainly have

retired into sorove, and breathedwaste Nor was the loss of the captain, to explain and

illuminate the different baronial circuret in this ever-memorable excursion--my tender

and affectionatein the ive an account of the funeral

to Nanny Eydent, that she had no o with her to the most difficult and inaccessible places

How vain was all this meritorious assiduity! for of what avail can the

ceremonies of a royal funeral be to Miss Nanny, at Irvine, where kings

never die, and where, if they did, it is not at all probable that Miss

Nanny would be employed to direct their solemn obsequies? As for my

brother, he was so entranced with his own enthusiasm, that he paid but

little attention to us, which made me the more sensible of the e

suffered from the absence of Captain Sabre In a word, my dear Bell,

never did I pass a more unsatisfactory day, and I wish it blotted for

ever froned to the abysses

of oblivion, while I recall theincidents that have

happened since I wrote you last