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after her first visit, and when she was nearly seventy 

 years old, she noticed that very great progress had 

 been made amongst women during the course of ten 

 years. She saw that education was spreading amongst 

 women of the lower class. She believed that she had 

 accomplished what she had sought to do in going 

 out, and witnessed what she regarded as the complete 

 success of her principles and system. Writing to a 

 friend, she said, " The work will go on. In faith and 

 hope I can say ' India, farewell."' Writing to another 

 friend about her work in India, she said, " My mind 

 will be satisfied if it can be said of me in this as in 

 other matters, ' She hath done what she could.' " 



This wish to earn the right to have it said of her, 

 " She hath done what she could," was expressed more 

 than once by Mary Carpenter. Indeed, if the words 

 could not be applied with truth to her, there are few 

 women of whom they could be spoken. Truly, she 

 accomplished marvels. During the intervals of her 

 visits to India she was busy looking after the work- 

 ing of the different institutions which she had 

 originated. These formed a remarkable group. 

 There was the Ragged School, which had been begun 

 in St. James's Back, and which had now been turned 

 into a day industrial feeding school. Associated with 

 this was the " Children's Agency," established for the 

 purpose of keeping a kindly oversight over the dis- 

 charged inmates of other schools, and helping them 

 to find work and situations ; also to seek out young 



