. My life-work;. r greatly from nervous indigestion,the result of over-fatigue. Often when I arrived at Orchill I wasquite exhausted, but a few weeks of its strong cool air made meanother man. The family life was then unbroken, and a largecircle of visitors made our sweet home the perfection of domestichappiness. I little foresaw what sad changes were near at is well the future is hidden from us, for we could hardly enduretlie present if we knew how hollow the ground was beneath our have seldom enjoyed an autumn holiday more than this started off, much refreshed, for a to
. My life-work;. r greatly from nervous indigestion,the result of over-fatigue. Often when I arrived at Orchill I wasquite exhausted, but a few weeks of its strong cool air made meanother man. The family life was then unbroken, and a largecircle of visitors made our sweet home the perfection of domestichappiness. I little foresaw what sad changes were near at is well the future is hidden from us, for we could hardly enduretlie present if we knew how hollow the ground was beneath our have seldom enjoyed an autumn holiday more than this started off, much refreshed, for a tour in Ireland with my friend,Thomas Dickson, , with the intention of probing, as far as Icould, the causes of unrest in that unhappy island. On the wayI went to a great Welsh gathering at Carnarvon, in the pavilionerected for the Eisteddfod, where 10,000 people assembled tohear Sir Wm. Harcourt. He was in those days at the zenith ofhis fame, and was, with John Morley, a chief pillar of Mr. Gladstones 270 ?: 1. VISIT TO IRELAND 271 policy. Few men could rouse a huge meeting better than burly figure, his never-failing quips and bon mots kept theaudience in high humour from first to last. We had the WelshLiberal Party at that time entirely in the Gladstonian fold. In-deed, Wales has never succumbed to a Tory reaction, but remainsto this day Liberal to the core. I spent a most interesting time in Ireland. Mr. Dickson wasone of the few Presbyterians who threw himself heartily into theHome Rule cause. He had moved from Ulster to Dublin, and athis hospitable house I saw some of the Nationalist leaders. Amongothers, I had a long interview with Archbishop Walsh. I wassurprised to find so much less aversion to Home Rule among theProtestants of Dubhn than among those of Ulster. I paid visitsto the best schools of Dublin, especiaUy the Central Model Schoolsof Marlborough Street—one of the few unsectarian institutions inIreland, and was delighted with the vast industrial
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