[[6]] Sir Charles Eastlake (History of the Gothic Revival, p. 154).
[[7]] Queens Regnant (and I think Consort) have the ex officio entrée to monasteries; but Fort Augustus had never been so honoured, our only "crowned head" visitor having been King Leopold of Belgium. I remember Prince Henry of Battenberg, who came in a yacht with Princess Beatrice, being put out at the latter being denied admission into the enclosure. There was some talk of King Edward paying us a visit from Glenquoich, where he was Lord Burton's guest; but nothing came of it.
[[8]] I had presided at a festival of the Association fifteen years previously (in 1897).
[[9]] A fine old soldier and sportsman, who had fought in Afghanistan and Burmah, and was afterwards appointed, first Clerk of the Cheque, and later standard-bearer, in the King's Bodyguard. He volunteered, when well over seventy, for service in the Great War, and was given, I think, some post in connection with the defences of the Forth Bridge.
[[10]] "I preach sitting," said Bateman: "it is more conformable to antiquity and to reason to sit than to stand."—Newman, Loss and Gain (ed. 1876), page 70. My friend George Angus had followed suit at St. Andrews.
[[11]] I say "tried"; for our good Belgian chef, who said he understood the process, used some mysterious pickle of his own invention—with disastrous results!
[[12]] In the event of no candidate receiving a sufficient number of votes, the "scrutiny" was repeated again and again—often a very lengthy and tedious proceeding.
[[13]] "The winter is now past, the rain is over and gone." It was never really safe to quote these words at Fort Augustus before (say) the end of May.
[[14]] My brother-in-law, Sir Charles Dalrymple, had been one of those who most bitterly resented my change of religion in 1875, and still more my entrance into the Benedictine Order. But time had softened old asperities; and we had been on affectionate terms for many years past.
[[15]] A Medley of Memories (1st Series), pp. 81, 82.