Note 6 — Chapter IX · THE LESSONS THAT PRIMROSE GAVE WHILE BALCAIRNIE LOOKED ON.
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As an example of the rigid self-restraint, no less than the indefatigable self-devotion of one of these ladies, it is recorded that when a son was about to sail for India—a terrible exile then—and came in to say farewell, when he found her playing on her piano, she merely looked over her shoulder, nodded a ‘good-bye, my dear,’ and immediately turning resumed her tune, and played on till his last footstep had sounded in the avenue.