It must have puzzled those who kept up the notion of her being "strait-laced" to see how indulgent she was even to Epicurean tendencies,--the remotest of all from her own.
'But I must stop; for I do not wish my honest memorial to degenerate into panegyric.

Among her latest known acts were her gifts to the Sicilian cause, and her manifestations on behalf of the antislavery cause in the United States.

Her kindness to William and Ellen Craft must be well known there; and it is also related in the newspapers, that she bequeathed a legacy to a young American to assist him under any disadvantages he might suffer as an abolitionist.
'All these deeds were done under a heavy burden of ill health.

Before she had passed middle life, her lungs were believed to be irreparably injured by partial ossification.

She was subject to attacks so serious, that each one, for many years, was expected to be the last.
She arranged her affairs in correspondence with her liabilities: so that the same order would have been found, whether she died suddenly or after long warning.
'She was to receive one more accession of outward greatness before she departed.