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With her "smiling eyes and pink colour, her soft 

 voice, strong well-bred Scottish accent, and natural 

 modesty," she must have been a most charming in- 

 dividual as different as possible from the ogress which 

 she would have been if the pictures of advanced 

 women drawn by those who oppose her opinions were 

 always true. 



The last years of this great woman were spent in 

 Italy. They were very calm and peaceful. 



When eighty years of age she lost her husband ; 

 and after what has been said of the sympathy, love, and 

 confidence which existed between them, it can be 

 imagined that this was a most grievous sorrow. Five 

 years later Woronzow Greig, the son to whom she 

 was so warmly attached, died, and this event robbed 

 her of one of her greatest delights. Yet she bore it 

 with calm courage. Indeed, in reading her " Recollec- 

 tions " we receive the impression that the inevitable 

 partings with her friends were cheered by the thought 

 that the separation was only for a short time. As 

 she was so old, she would soon join the loved ones. 

 She thought of death and eternity with the most 

 perfect composure and confidence in the mercy of God ; 

 and her belief in immortality was so firm and decided 

 that she even allowed herself to hope that she would 

 meet in the future state the animals she had loved. 

 Whatever our opinion may be as to her ground for 

 this hope, it is certain that to her it was a great 

 comfort. 



