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she received the news of the death of her youngest 

 brother. It was a great shock. About a month 

 later, on Thursday, June I4th, 1877, she wrote pro- 

 posing to visit her brother, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, in 

 London. She was busy all day after doing this, 

 and in the evening she happened to meet in the 

 street one of her Parliamentary friends. With him 

 she conversed for a little while on public topics with 

 great earnestness of feeling and clearness of thought. 

 She then went into her quiet study and wrote till a 

 later hour than usual. When she was last seen it 

 was with a smile upon her face. She lay down to 

 rest and slept, and before the dawn she had passed 

 quietly away. 



Mary Carpenter, when a little child, scarcely able 

 to talk, amused her friends by saying she " wanted to 

 be ooseful." She died at the age of seventy, having 

 accomplished as noble a work as ever was given to 

 woman. 



(Our Portrait of Miss Carpenter is copied, by permission, from a Photograph 

 by C. Voss Bark, Clifton) 



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