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fashioned or not, she was by far the most deeply reli- 

 gious person I have ever known. By nature very shy and 

 retiring, and in every way the reverse of self-assertive, 

 she would yet never swerve an inch from any course 

 which she believed to be right, and her deep personal 

 piety and absolute unselfishness made the more impres- 

 sion on all who knew her, from the fact that they were 

 not intended to impress any one. For over forty years 

 she taught in the village Sunday School, played the organ 

 in the village church, and went about unostentatiously 

 ministering to the wants of others and visiting any who 

 were sick or in trouble. She taught all her own chil- 

 dren until they went to school, and took immense pains 

 over the task not one of us would hesitate to attribute 

 any success we may have achieved in different ways in 

 the first place to her patient and thorough teaching. 

 All the varied tasks which in many parishes are shared 

 by a number of workers fell on her alone there was the 

 burden of a large house, often with inferior servants ; 

 and the duties of hospitality, not only to parishioners 

 but to many naturalists and other friends who from 

 time to time visited Bloxworth, gave her a great deal to 

 do j but everything was done in the same happy way, 

 without a thought of self, and in spite (very often) of great 

 physical weariness and the even greater pain of natural 

 shyness. She had some reward though she sought 

 none in the deep love and respect of all who knew her 

 well, and she has doubtless a better reward elsewhere. 



