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facility in comprehending and developing these ex- 

 tremely difficult formulae which she possessed when young. 

 Often, also, she said how grateful she was to the 

 Almighty Father who had allowed her to retain her 

 faculties unimpaired to so great an age. God was indeed 

 loving and merciful to her ; not only did He spare her 

 this calamity, but also the weary trial of long-continued 

 illness. In health of body and vigour of mind, having 

 lived far beyond the usual span of human life, He called 

 her to Himself. For her Death lost all its terrors. Her 

 pure spirit passed away so gently that those around her 

 scarcely perceived when she left them. It was the beauti- 

 ful and painless close of a noble and a happy life. 



My mother died in sleep on the morning of the 29th 

 Nov., 1872. Her remains rest in the English Carapo 

 Santo of Naples. 



TIIE END. 



