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But I must not stop at this period of my remin- 

 iscences to speak of other sisters than Adele, with 

 whom my heart was then so intimately associated. 

 I am enormously indebted to the influence of her 

 pious, serene, and resolute disposition. Though she 

 was compelled to pass the greater part of her life 

 lying on her back, she was so energetic in other ways, 

 and so capable of endurance, that she overcame 

 difficulties that would have been insurmountable to 

 most women who were equally handicapped. She 

 was active in setting up schools and teaching the 

 poor. She had a considerable correspondence, and 

 exerted a wide influence among all classes during 

 many years. Her natural capacity was of an unusually 

 high order, and many who knew her well, and whose 

 opinions deserve respect, thought that a slight better- 

 ment of opportunity and circumstances might have 

 caused her name to be as widely loved and known 

 as those of any of our English saints or heroines. 

 She passed her life under an abiding sense of the 

 presence of God and of duty to man, without which 

 few persons have ever done great things. She was 

 most unconventional in her ways, and her remarkable 

 courage was recognised by all the family. 



She married a clergyman, the Rev. Shirley 

 Bunbury, shortly after my father's death in 1844, 

 but was left a widow soon afterwards, with one little 

 girl, on whom she lavished the same educational care 

 that she had bestowed upon myself, but with fuller 

 knowledge. That little girl is now in her turn a widow, 

 with a large and grown-up family. She was married 

 in 1866 to John C. Baron Lethbridge of Tregeare, in 

 Cornwall, about six miles west of Launceston. 



