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xxx was one of the party. Anne Scott, and Walter the soldier, and Jane Scott the bride, were also travelling in Sir Walter's train. The reception which Ireland gave Sir Walter was a warm-hearted ovation. "It would be endless to enumerate the distinguished persons who, morning after morning, crowded to his levee in St. Stephen's Green," says Lockhart, and he quotes an old saying of Sir Robert Peel's, "that Sir Walter's reception in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1822 was the first thing that gave him (Peel) a notion of the electric shock of a nation's gratitude." "I doubt if even that scene surpassed what I myself witnessed," continues the biographer, "when Sir Walter returned down Dame Street after inspecting the Castle of Dublin."

From ovations to friendship it was Sir Walter's inclination to turn. On the 1st August he came to Edgeworthstown, accompanied by his family. " We remained there, for several days, making excursions to Loch Oel, etc. Mr. Lovell Edgeworth had his classical mansion filled every evening with a succession of distinguished friends. Here, above all, we had the opportunity of seeing in what universal respect and comfort a gentleman's family may live in that country, provided only they live there habitually and do their dutyHere we found neither mud hovels nor naked peasantry, but snug cottages and smiling faces all about Here too we pleased ourselves with recognising some of the sweetest features in Goldsmith's picture of 'Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. Oliver Goldsmith received his education at this very school of Edgeworthstown, and Pallas More, the little hamlet where the author of The Vicar of Wakefield first saw the light, is still, as it was then, the property of the Edgeworths.

So Scott came to visit his little friend, and the giant was