The Marquis of Montrose . ans education. Not far from oldMontrose stood Kinnaird Castle, where Lord Carnegiedwelt with six pretty daughters. There the youngMontrose had visited, and there he fell in love withthe youngest girl. Lady Magdalen. The match wastoo desirable for opposition either from the Carnegiesor the young lords guardians, and the two children—Montrose was scarcely seventeen—were married inthe chapel of Kinnaird on November lo, to the marriage contract, they were to spendthe next four years at Kinnaird till the bridegroomcame of age. They were years of quiet study,
The Marquis of Montrose . ans education. Not far from oldMontrose stood Kinnaird Castle, where Lord Carnegiedwelt with six pretty daughters. There the youngMontrose had visited, and there he fell in love withthe youngest girl. Lady Magdalen. The match wastoo desirable for opposition either from the Carnegiesor the young lords guardians, and the two children—Montrose was scarcely seventeen—were married inthe chapel of Kinnaird on November lo, to the marriage contract, they were to spendthe next four years at Kinnaird till the bridegroomcame of age. They were years of quiet study, theleisurely preparation which is all too rare in youthtor the necessities of manhood. The famous Jamesonportrait, given by Graham of Morphie as a weddinggift to the young countess, shows us Montrose inthose years of meditation, when he was scribbling hisambitions on his copy of Quintus Curtius. It is a charm-ing head of a boy, with its wide, curious, grey eyes, thearched, almost fantastic, eyebrows, the delicate and. ^rum/^ ??c^de--< YOUTH. 19 mobile lips. Life was to crush out the daintiness andgaiety, armour was to take the place of lace collarand silken doublet ; but one thing the face of Montrosenever lost—it had always an air of hope, as of oneseeking for a far country. Early in the year 1633 Montrose, having just attainedhis majority, set out on a course of foreign travel. Bydoing so he missed the pageant of the kings coronationin Edinburgh, in which he would naturally have playeda conspicuous part. Probably the reason is to be foundin the scandal connected with his sisters husband,Colquhoun of Luss, which was then the talk of Scot-land. The laird, in company with a necromancer of the name of Carlippis, had fled from his lawful wife,carrying with him his sister-in-law, the little LadyKatharine, who had been for a time Montroses com-rade in his Glasgow lodgings. The malefactor waspromptly outlawed, but the unhappy girl disappearsfrom history. With such a tragedy
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