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all I want. Few people can say that. I am not 

 obliged to stint myself, and I can indulge myself in 

 making my places and things very nice, and binding 

 books and making presents, and subscribing to good 

 objects and taking journeys. I am only stingy in 

 things which I do not like spending money about. 

 So I am rich. And I have, after thirty years, got the 

 Government to attend to the miserable children ! And 

 so we both thank God." 



In another letter written to her nephew, she said 

 "I do not look back with sorrow on the past. 

 There have been many painful woundings, and sad 

 bereavements, and great struggles, and dark per- 

 plexities, but they have all blended together to make 

 a calm whole of the past, very wonderfully calm when 

 I think of parts alone. As you say, there has been 

 one deep moving spirit running through all. I used 

 often to desire to have 



* A soul by force of sorrows high, 

 Uplifted to the purest sky 

 Of undisturbed humanity.' 



" Now I do not seek that or anything, but thank- 

 fully take whatever is given. ' She hath done what 

 she could, 1 I can truly say of myself, whatever errors 

 I have fallen into. So I look very serenely back from 

 this boundary, and hopefully to what remains of life, 

 the brightest and best of all, and most full of 

 blcs.si 



A little more than a month after writing this letter 



