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Title: Recollections and impressions,
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Sellar, Eleanor Mary Dennistoun, 1829-
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Publisher: Edinburgh London : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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kened of the same complaint.She was taken up to Golfhill, and there, afterlingering for two or three months, she joinedthose whom she had loved and lost awhile, andfound the rest and peace her heart and soulcraved for, and could never find in this worldof death and partings. In 1834 my father had been returned to Par-liament for the county of Dumbarton, defeatingAlexander Smollett of Bonhill. Though alwaysa keen and thoughtful politician, he did not takekindly to parliamentary life, and gave it up whenthis Parliament was dissolved, never again tryingfor a seat. My father was very silent, and SirJ. Colquhoun, who succeeded him, was still moreso, and I believe they were described thus: MrDennistoun always speaks when you ask him any-thing ; Sir James never does. Our life as children at Golfhill was an ex-tremely quiet one. We were thrown entirely onourselves and our own resources; but they seemedsufficient, and I dont think we craved for moresociety and excitement. My brother Robert had
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Ftoin an oil-(hi:n. MRS DKNNISTOUN AND HIIR CHILDREN,JAMES, ROBERT, ALEXANDER, and ELEANOR. THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD. 11 a good deal of mechanical skill, and I remembera delightful carriage he made out of a largeold box, duly christened the Earl of Mar;and when we came to the top of a hill thehuman horse was withdrawn, and the guid-ing it, on its own impetus, was as excitingto us as tobogganing is now to our childrenand our childrens children. He also constructeda little mill, in which he ground real corn,which we baked into probably most indigestiblecakes. The boys had a tutor, and we girls anEnglish governess; but my great delight wasthe dancing class, taught by a Signor Sartorio,and in this my brother Alexander and I greatlydistinguished ourselves, and became the prizedancers : and as this is the only thing I ever ex-celled in, I may be permitted to record the inter-esting fact! We used to spend the summers atLagarie on the Gairloch, Dumbartonshire, forseveral years with my aunt, Mrs

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