MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 8 1 



From the length of time I had known and 

 noticed Miss Beilby, I had formed a strong attach- 

 ment to her, but could not make this known to 

 her or to any one else. I could have married her 

 before I was done with my apprenticeship with- 

 out any fears on my part, but I felt for her, and 

 pined and fretted at so many bars being in the 

 way of our union. One of the greatest was the 

 supposed contempt in which I was held by the rest 

 of the family, who, I thought, treated me with 

 great hauteur, though I had done everything in my 

 power to oblige them. I had, like a stable boy, 

 waited upon their horse; and had cheerfully done 

 everything they wanted at my hands till one of 

 the brothers grossly affronted me in the business of 

 the stable. This I instantly resented, and refused 

 attendance there any more. Before I was out of 

 my time, Miss Beilby had a paralytic or palsy 

 stroke, which very greatly altered her look, and 

 rendered her for some time unhappy. Long after 

 this she went with her eldest brother into Fifeshire, 

 where she died. 



must have read it attentively, for he subsequently referred to the 

 above illustration of Sergeant Hymers as to the "brick wall " in one 

 of his speeches delivered at Greenwich in November, 1871.] 



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