Fleeming's marriage--His married life--Professional difficulties--Life at Claygate--Illness of Mrs. F. Jenkin--and of Fleeming--Appointment to the Chair at Edinburgh 220 CHAPTER V Notes of Telegraph Voyages, 1858-1873 231 CHAPTER VI 1869-1885 Edinburgh--Colleagues--_Farrago vitae_--I. The family circle--Fleeming and his sons--Highland life--The cruise of the steam-launch--Summer in Styria--Rustic manners--II. The Drama--Private theatricals--III. Sanitary associations--The phonograph--IV. Fleeming's acquaintance with a student--His late maturity of mind--Religion and morality--His love of heroism--Taste in literature--V. His talk--His late popularity--Letter from M. Trelat 260 CHAPTER VII 1875-1885 Mrs. Jenkin's illness--Captain Jenkin--The golden wedding--Death of Uncle John--Death of Mr. and Mrs. Austin--Illness and death of the Captain--Death of Mrs. Jenkin--Effect on Fleeming--Telpherage--The end 293 MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS TO MY MOTHER IN THE NAME OF PAST JOY AND PRESENT SORROW I DEDICATE THESE MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS _SS. "Ludgate Hill," within sight of Cape Race_ _NOTE_ _This volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle,--taken together, they build up a face that "I have loved long since and lost awhile," the face of what was once myself. This has come by accident; I had no design at first to be autobiographical; I was but led away by the charm of beloved memories and by regret for the irrevocable dead; and when my own young face (which is a face of the dead also) began to appear in the well as by a kind of magic, I was the first to be surprised at the occurrence._ _My grandfather the pious child, my father the idle eager sentimental youth, I have thus unconsciously exposed. Of their descendant, the person of to-day, I wish to keep the secret; not because I love him better, but because with him I am still in a business partnership, and cannot divide interests._ _Of the papers which make up the volume, some have appeared already in "The Cornhill," "Longman's," "Scribner," "The English Illustrated," "The Magazine of Art," "The Contemporary Review"; three are here in print for the first time; and two others have enjoyed only what may be regarded as a private circulation._ _R. L. S._ MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS I THE FOREIGNER AT HOME "This is no' my ain house; I ken by the biggin' o't."