Her shrinking sensitiveness might embarrass one visitor; while another would be charmed with her easy, significant, and vivacious conversation.

It depended much on whom she talked with.

The abiding certainty was, that she had strength for the hardest of human trials, and the composure which belongs to strength.

For the rest, it is enough to point to her deeds, and to the mourning of her friends round the chasm which her departure has made in their life, and in the society in which it is spent.

All that could be done in the way of personal love and honour was done while she lived: it only remains now to see that her name and fame are permitted to shine forth at last in their proper light.' We have simply to ask the reader whether a life like this was not the best, the noblest answer that a woman could make to a doubting world..