[1] Married Lord Teignmouth, Conservative member for Marylebone, in 1838.—Editor.
[2] The steward was very civil.
[3] The packet was nearly lost going in; we lost sight of the lighthouse in the fog, before the light was put up as a signal that there was water enough. In standing in to discover it again, we got into shoal water, near the breakers, and had to tack in ten feet of water, the vessel drawing near eight feet. It was a mere accident our not striking the ground.
[4] In after years published a clever children's book, Aunt Effie's Nursery Rhymes (illustrated), which ran through many editions; also a volume of sacred poems, The Dove on the Cross.—Editor.
[5] We expected we were going for a carriage, so we could not think where they were taking us; the custom-house looked more like a den of robbers.
[6] I awoke this morning very uncomfortable; although I had been very anxious to go to France, I now felt so far from home that I would have done anything to get back again.
[7] The governess. This 'clever and progressive' lady published, anonymously, in 1821, The History of William and his Little Scholar, Joseph, with some account of Joseph's Mother: sketches of Cumberland life, based on her experiences with the Brownes, from whose household the characters were taken.—Editor.
[8] There is a hedge at one side of the Forest.
[9] At the doors of many of the houses we saw children eating something out of a porringer and holding long rolls in their hands.