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Memorial* of a Quiet Life. I feel intense companion for 

 the short nr-s of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness, not 

 five years, but I cannot bear her notion that God took him 

 away because .-he was so deeply attached to him. Not that 

 I think a pe,-><m cannot be selfish in their love; but it is not 

 the strength of the love that is the sin, but the sclfishne 

 I wish they had omitted at least half the lette- TL 

 is so miK-li sameness in the religious feeling, as of course 

 there rnu-t lie. But people make the mistake of thinking 

 you cannot have too mir-h of what is good, whereas the 

 quantity of it spoils the whole in a degree. 



The household is boiling over with indignation because 

 the mowers, whom we engaged, have broken their word, and 

 forsaken us at the last minute. I think we had better buy 

 a machine as the difficulty of getting mowers is become very 

 general. 



Yours, my dear, 



E. D. 



Six or seven times every summer my husband organized 

 a Sunday walking party of his singing-el; i>- and of members 

 of the Working Men's College. \\V u-ed to L r o by rail to 

 some place near London, and walk a few miles to a spot 

 suitable for luncheon and a tea picnic. Sin-jin^, ;;athTmi; 

 flowers, games and tea filled up the day, and we u-ed to 

 come home, well tired out, by an evening train. v. ral 

 times after my marriage, my father and mother invited the 

 party to Down. The lir>t time was in the summer of 



l87-'>. These invitations r _ r ave <_ r n v at pleasure and there u 



a large attendance, often afl many as sixty or -eventy. My 

 father and mother's L r raeioiis welcome, an e\, ,-llent tea <>n 

 the lawn, wandering in the <jarden and -in_rin'_; under the 

 lime-trees made a delightful day, ending with a drive home 



to Orpington Station fr the l.nli' o the party. 



This summer my pan-tils spent a week at &bingei 1 1 all. 

 the home of Mr T. II. Kanvr, afterward; Lr 1 l-'arn-r. \\ 



ond marriage to Kuphemia i . Kllir) daughter of Hrn-j.-i^h 

 Wedgwood, had reerntly taken pla This pl.-a-ant. 



friendly hou>e WBS no\v added to the V.TV few plaoefl u here 

 my father felt erx.u-h at ease to pay visits. In general. In- 

 considered that his healt h deharred him from sin-h plea-ures. 

 He much enjoyed Mr Farrvr's t ilk and the >eauty of the 



