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MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



too exclusively on the devotional side of her character, 

 and fails sadly to bring out her originality, charm, 

 and humour. Like many other persons who are 

 profoundly religious, she too was perfectly tolerant 

 of other beliefs than her own if they were genuine 

 and decorously expressed. 



Her endowment of a Chapel of Rest in the 

 Bayswater Road has by no means fulfilled her wishes. 

 Her object was to establish a quiet artistic shelter, 

 where persons desiring a few minutes' withdrawal 

 from the turmoil of life, might enter and commune in 

 quiet with themselves. She obtained a disused chapel, 

 and arranged for its maintenance. Then she took 

 great pains over the designs that were to be painted 

 on the walls in fresco. When these were sufficiently 

 advanced, she, long since a widow and in rapidly 

 declining health, invited many friends to its opening. 

 My wife and I were rather late, and I can see now 

 the sweet welcoming gesture with which she beckoned 

 us up to her on the platform. We never saw her 

 again. She lingered on, unwilling, or unable, to see 

 any even of her oldest friends, and at length died. 

 The Chapel of Rest remained unfinished for some 

 years. It is little used, and can, or could, be entered 

 only at specified hours. 



As to Mr. Russell Gurney, who served on many 

 important commissions, he twice refused a judgeship, 

 preferring to retain his post of " Recorder" of the City 

 of London, which is of nearly equal dignity to a 

 judgeship, and did not at that time preclude its holder 

 from sittinof in Parliament. He was member for 



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Southampton. I have known no one who struck me 

 as a more just, searching, and yet kindly judge, or 



