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of 1 6 1 ever saw. He is very handsome, and shakes back his 

 head of heavy dark curls every time he spoke. His dress 

 was exceedingly recherche, he is quite a finished petit mattre. 

 To-day we went to hear Pusey in the morning at Dods- 

 worth's Church, and walked afterwards to Lincoln's Inn 

 Chapel. I wish you had been with us to-day. Mr Maurice 

 gave us a beautiful discourse, and I heard every word. It 

 amply repaid me for my walk. It was partly on the forgive- 

 ness of our sins and what Luther had done. It is a sermon 

 I should like to read, for it began with our quelling selfish- 

 ness, but the link that bound that to the latter part of his 

 sermon I cannot recollect. It was a sermon in contrast to 

 Dr Pusey's in the morning, which was striking and terrific, 

 closing with the denunciations of our Saviour to the goats 

 on the left hand. Thus closes my story of the week. . . . 



Fanny Allen to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood. 



MY DEAE ELIZABETH, Dec - 26 C 1847 ^ [TENET]. 



You will be glad to hear how I have found Jessie, so 

 I will begin a letter to you this evening. I want also to 

 close the history of my London annals to you, for if I do not 

 write them when they are tolerably fresh I shall forget them 

 altogether. 



Thursday, the House of Commons Day, was a failure. 

 Where you sit is not comparable to the old Ventilator, you 

 cannot easily move, you have a fair sight of the House, 

 but you hear with difficulty. The only person, or the two 

 persons I wished to hear, I did not. H. Drummond did not 

 speak that night, and Julia Smith would not stay long 

 enough for D 'Israeli. Then I should say the debate was 

 a cold one. Mr Gladstone spoke fluently, but there was no 

 soul in his words, and indeed there were no giants in the 

 House. Saturday it poured. Hensleigh continued ailing 

 and would not think of going out to breakfast, so we went 

 without him and had a very pleasant morning. Rogers is 

 much more himself, and can manage subjects better in his 

 own house than when he is thrown into a party of 12, where 



