Your duty to our whole household was exemplary: you tended my mother as carefully as if she had been your own.

You had innumerable other excellences, in common with all other worthy matrons, but these I have mentioned were peculiarly yours." No one can study this inscription without becoming convinced that it tells an unvarnished tale of truth--that here was really a rare and precious woman; a Roman matron of the very best type, practical, judicious, courageous, simple in her habits and courteous to all her guests.

And we feel that there is one human being, and one only, of whom she is always thinking, to whom she has given her whole heart--the husband whose words and deeds show that he was wholly worthy of her..