hat I am more given than other people to talk
of myself, but I am conscious of a certain incapability of
getting rid of myself what has grown upon me since those
weary weeks in Newgate and those frightful days in the
dock; and this makes me unfit for society. Should I again
have a seat in the House I shall be afraid to get up upon
my legs, lest I should find myself talking of the time
in which I stood before the judge with a halter round my
neck.

I sympathise with you perfectly in what you say about
Loughlinter. It may be right that you should go there and
show yourself,--so that those who knew the Kennedys in
Scotland should not say that you had not dared to visit
the place, but I do not think it possible that you should
live there as yet. And why should you do so? I cannot
conceive that your presence there should do good, unless
you took delight in the place.

I will not go to Loughlinter myself, although I know how
warm would be my welcome.

When he had got so far with his letter he found the difficulty of
going on with it to be almost insuperable. How could he give her any
reasons for his not making the journey to Scotland? "People would say
that you and I should not be alone together after all the evil that
has been spoken of us;--and would be specially eager in saying so
were I now to visit you, so lately made a widow, and to sojourn with
you in the house that did belong to your husband. Only think how
eloquent would be the indignation of _The People's Banner_ were it
known that I was at Loughlinter." Could he have spoken the truth
openly, such were the reasons that he would have given; but it was
impossible that such truths should be written by him in a letter to
herself. And then it was almost equally difficult for him to tell
her of a visit which he had resolved to make. But the letter must be
completed, and at last the words were written.

I could be of no real service to you there, as will be
your brother and your brother's wife, even though their
stay with you is to be so short. Were I you I would go
out among the people as much as possible, even though
they should not receive you cordially at first. Though
we hear so much of clanship in the Highlands, I think
the Highlanders are prone to cling to any one who has
territorial authority among them. They thought a great
deal of Mr. Kennedy, but they had never heard his