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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Monday,
August
22nd.--Immediately
after
breakfast
walked
to
the
Duke
of
Hamilton's
house
to
view
the
picture-gallery,
chiefly
the
famous
picture
of
Daniel
in
the
Lions'
Den,
by
Rubens.
It
is
a
large
building,
without
grandeur,
a
heavy,
lumpish
mass,
after
the
fashion
of
the
Hopetoun
H,[86]
only
five
times
the
size,
and
with
longer
legs,
which
makes
it
gloomy.
We
entered
the
gate,
passed
the
porter's
lodge,
where
we
saw
nobody,
and
stopped
at
the
front
door,
as
William
had
done
two
years
before
with
Sir
William
Rush's
family.
We
were
met
by
a
little
mean-looking
man,
shabbily
dressed,
out
of
livery,
who,
we
found,
was
the
porter.
After
scanning
us
over,
he
told
us
that
we
ought
not
to
have
come
to
that
door.
We
said
we
were
sorry
for
the
mistake,
but
as
one
of
our
party
had
been
there
two
years
before,
and
was
admitted
by
the
same
entrance,
we
had
supposed
it
was
the
regular
way.
After
many
hesitations,
and
having
kept
us
five
minutes
waiting
in
the
large
hall,
while
he
went
to
consult
with
the
housekeeper,
he
informed
us
that
we
could
not
be
admitted
at
that
time,
the
housekeeper
being
unwell;
but
that
we
might
return
in
an
hour:
he
then
conducted
us
through
long
gloomy
passages
to
an
obscure
door
at
the
corner
of
the
house.
We
asked
if
we
might
be
permitted
to
walk
in
the
park
in
the
meantime;
and
he
told
us
that
this
would
not
be
agreeable
to
the
Duke's
family.
We
returned
to
the
inn
discontented
enough,
but
resolved
not
to
waste
an
hour,
if
there
were
anything
else
in
the
neighbourhood
worth
seeing.
The
waiter
told
us
there
was
a
curious
place
called
Baroncleugh,
with
gardens
cut
out
in
rocks,
and
we
determined
to
go
thither.
We
had
to
walk
through
the
town,
which
may
be
about
as
large
as
Penrith,
and
perhaps
a
mile
further,
along
a
dusty
turnpike
road.
The
morning
was
hot,
sunny,
and
windy,
and
we
were
half
tired
before
we
reached
the
place;
but
were
amply
repaid
for
our
trouble.
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