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evil, or anything which I did not believe to be 

 good and true. In all my writings I have written 

 no lines of which I am ashamed, — no word which 

 1 desire to blot. For justice sake, for charity 

 sake, for God's sake let me rest. I have striven 

 hard in great trials, in great temptations, in a 

 foreign country. Remember now, all of you who 

 would assail me my back is turned for ever." • 

 "My last hope is gone, my last love and my 

 life go together, and so good night to 

 May 16. 1S58.* Herbert." 



His unfortunate death was brought on by a second 

 marriage the previous winter with a young lady from 

 Providence, Rhode Island, who, listening to malicious 

 gossip, left her husband, and rather than continue the 

 battle alone he took into his own hands the putting out 

 of the light of life. 



*Herbert died the next day. 



Q U O R N D O N HALL, Leicestershire 

 From the Sporting Magazine, 1805 



Country spat of Hugo Meynell, Esq. 

 first master of the Quorndon Hounds, 

 now known as the Quern Hunt. 



