14 MEMOIRS Of 



" Dr. Darwin ; he has prolonged my day*, 

 " and he has bleffed them." 



Thus died this fuperior woman, in the 

 bloom of life, fmcerely regretted by all, who 

 knew how to value her excellence, and paf* 

 JtonateJy regretted by the felecled few, whom 

 Ihe honoured with her perfonal and confi- 

 dential friendfhip. The year after his mar- 

 riage, Dr. Darwin purchafed an old half 

 timbered houfe in the cathedral vicarage, 

 adding a handfome new front, with Ve- 

 netian windows, and commodious apart- 

 ments. This front looked towards Beacon 

 ftreet, but had no ftreet annoyance, being 

 feparated from it by a narrow, deep, dingle, 

 which, when the Doclor purchafed the pre- 

 jnifes, was overgrown with tangled briars 

 and knot-grafs. In ancient days it was the 

 receptacle of that water, which moated the 

 Clofe in a fe mi circle, the other half being 

 defended by the Minfter pool. A fortu- 

 nate opening, between the oppofite houfes 



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