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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/ 7 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 one hundred pounds 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 Eeference to every Observation 

 of every star in the above mentioned British Cata- 

 logue." She also prepared "The Keduction 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 



