But unable to compass the likeness of a haystack myself, I was desirous of possessing some record of the many journeys which I designed to take, and eventually did take with her.

And wholly to please me she forthwith made the attempt, and though her landscape was never equal to her figure drawing, I possess some couple of hundred of water-colour sketches done by her from nature on the spot.
I used to say that if I wanted a Sanscrit dictionary, I had only to put her head straight at it, and let her feel the spur, and it would have been done! We lived together seventeen happy years.

During the five first, I think I may say that she lived wholly and solely in, by, and for me.
That she should live for somebody other than herself was an absolute indefeasible necessity of her nature.

During the last twelve years I shared her heart with her daughter.

Her intense worship for her "Baby Beatrice" was equalled only by--that of all the silliest and all the wisest women, who have true womanly hearts in their bosoms, for their children.