Lives of the Lindsays; Or, a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford And Balcarres 2
Lives of the Lindsays; Or, a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford And Balcarres 2
Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Earl Of, 1812-1880
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Lady Elizabeth, he was fairly to be accounted happy. A man of deep and ardent feeling, the love that he had shared between his brother and his sister became concentrated on her after that brother's death ; both indeed being invalids, they loved each other with a degree of tenderness more resembling that which we may suppose the spirits of '' the just made perfect " feel for each other in heaven, than the commonplace affection of busy mortals on earth ; they lived each in the other's heart, and ...were all the world to each other. The following letters (which no one, I beHeve, but myself, has perused since the death of the corre- spondents) will, I think, be interesting to the descendants of the one and the collateral relatives of the other, who traditionally re- verence the brother as the last of the old knights of chivalry, the sister as the model of all that is amiable and excellent in woman. The remembrance of the year " fifteen," I must premise, was a constant bar to Earl James's promotion ; and when he quitted the army after thirty years of hard service and hope deferred, neither • Printed (now for the first time) from the originals, kindly presented me by Sir Charles Ross, Bart., of Balnagowan.
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