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retiring to the chamber of death, there to ruminate 

 without interruption on my isolated situation. Of 

 this last solace I was robbed on the 7th of Septem- 

 ber, when the dear remains were consigned to the 

 grave." 



Faithful and devoted watcher over his dead 

 body, to the last ! When he had been buried in 

 the little church at Upton, Windsor, at the age of 

 eighty-four, honored by all Europe and America, 

 Caroline could live no longer where remembrance 

 of him made it intolerable. 



She went back to Hanover, " a person," she said, 

 sadly, " that has nothing more to do in this world," 

 to live with her brother Dietrich. She had come 

 to England, a girl of twenty-two ; she went back 

 an elderly woman, seventy-two. The home in Ger- 

 many did not prove a happy one, but how could it 

 without William ? She lived simply, not spending 

 half of the five hundred dollars a year left her by 

 her dead brother. 



She had already published " A Catalogue of eight 

 hundred and sixty Stars, observed by Flamsteed, 

 but not included in the British Catalogue," and " A 

 General Index of Reference to every Observation 

 of every star in the above mentioned British Cata- 

 logue." She also prepared " The Reduction and 

 Arrangement, in the form of a Catalogue in Zones, 

 of all the Star Clusters and Nebulae observed by 

 Sir William Herschel in his Sweeps," "a work," 

 said Sir David Brewster, "of immense labor; an 

 extraordinary monument of the unextinguished 



