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I had with perfect justice condemned Mr. Gally Knight’s representation “out of his own head” of San Michele at Lucca, could not-Mr. Gally Knight being a protégé of Albemarle Street-appear in the Quarterly.¹ This first clear insight into the arts of bookselling and reviewing made me permanently distrustful of both trades; and hearing no word, neither, of Charlotte’s taking the smallest interest in the celestial hierarchies, I returned to town in a temper and state of health in which my father and mother thought that once more the best place for me would be Leamington.

I thought so myself, too; and went penitently again to Jephson, who at once stopped the grilled salmon, and ordered salts and promenade, as before.

194. It chanced that at this time there was staying at Leamington, also under Jephson’s care, the son of an old friend, perhaps flame, of my father’s, Mrs. Farquharson,-a youth now of some two or three-and-twenty, but who seemed to me older than myself, being already a man of some position and influence in Perthshire. A few years before he had come into possession, under trustees, of a large Highland estate, on the condition that he should change his name for that of Macdonald, (properly reduplicate,-Macdonald Macdonald,) considerable sums being reserved in the trustees’ hands by the terms of the will, for the purchase of more land. At that time his properties were St. Martin’s near Perth, where his mother lived; Rossie Castle, above Montrose; another castle, with much rock and moor round it, name forgotten, just south of Schehallion; and a shooting-lodge, Crossmount, at the foot of Schehallion, between Lochs Rannoch and Tummel.² The young Macdonald had come to see us once or twice with

¹ [For a reference to the plate in Gally Knight’s Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, 1842, see Vol. VIII. p. 277 n. Ruskin published his suppressed criticism in vol. i. of The Stones of Venice: see Vol. IX. p. 431.]

² [William Macdonald Colquhoun Farquharson, born 1822, took the name of Macdonald in 1841 on succeeding to St. Martin’s Abbey, Perth, and other properties. He died in 1893.]

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