[474] How well I remember, when somebody remonstrated with Lady Marian for “burning the candle at both ends,” the quickness with which she answered—“Why, I thought that was the very way to make two ends meet.”
[475] Her father, Benjamin Bathurst (third son of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich), travelling as envoy from the British Government to the Emperor Francis, was about to enter his carriage at the door of the Swan Inn at Perleberg, between Berlin and Hamburg, when he disappeared and was never heard of again. Her brother was killed by a fall from his horse in a race at Rome. Her sister, Emmeline, who married (1830) Lord Castle Stuart, and afterwards (1867) Signor Pistocchi, I have often seen at Rome.
[476] From “South-Eastern France.”
[477] From “South-Western France.”
[478] From “South-Eastern France.”
[479] From “South-Western France.”
[480] Mr. Challoner Chute, of the Vyne, died, deeply regretted, May 30, 1892.
[481] The picture belongs to Mr. Morison.
[482] From “South-Eastern France.”
[483] From “Venice.”
[484] A few months after this happy visit to my dear friend Sir Howard Elphinstone came the terrible news of his sudden death at sea.
[485] Georgiana, third daughter of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond.
[486] The four seraphim are recognised by the Moslems as Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Israel. Before the birth of the Prophet they were supposed to speak, and to give warning of coming catastrophes. Thus they have been permitted to survive the other ancient mosaics of St. Sophia.
[487] Marion Crawford’s novel.
[488] Joseph Maier, the eminent wood-sculptor.
[489] “Die Früchte der Passionbetrachtung.”
[490] “I know no guilt like that of incontinent speech. How long Christ was silent before He spoke, and how little He then said.”—Carlyle, in Reid’s Life of Lord Houghton.
[491] A passage in Richard Kurd’s Sermons (vol. ii.), which I had read long ago, would come back to me during this terrible hour. “In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half-confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.”
[492] John Inglesant.
[493] Paul Verlaine.
[494] The birth of John, Henry, and Thomas Palmer is perhaps the only well-authenticated instance of a fortnight intervening between the eldest and the youngest child produced at a birth. It is described by Fuller. Their mother was Alice, daughter of John Clement. Sir Henry lost his life in the defence of Guisnes, of which he was governor. Sir Thomas was beheaded for the part which he took for Lady Jane Grey.
[495] Née Magniac.
[496] Austin Dobson, “Angiola in Heaven.”
[497] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[498] From “Northern Italy.”
[499] Onions and lettuces. The lower classes in Rome call all the smaller vegetables fruit.
[500] “Yes, lady; it is enough for me to think of that shoemaker who made me pay seven francs instead of five, and I cry directly.”
[501] A mineral fountain near Rome.
[502] William Wetmore Story died—deeply loved by children, friends, indeed by all who came within his genial and invigorating influence—at Vallombrosa, Oct. 7, 1895, aged 77. His excellent wife had passed away before him.
[503] From “Days near Rome.”
[504] Planted by S. Dominic, and supposed to flourish or fail with the fortunes of the Dominican Order.
[505] From “Days near Rome.”
[506] From “Venice.”
[507] Lady Emily Pierrepont, daughter of Earl Manvers, widow of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp.
[508] Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
[509] I have since heard that this was Louise de Rohan Chabot, whom his father forbade Lord Orford to marry, because she was a Roman Catholic. She was the love of his life, which was wrecked, and he became a Roman Catholic himself—such is Nemesis!
[510] This was the man who one day went up to the great, the beloved Bishop Brooks, the most popular man in America since Washington, and said, “And do you really believe all that you say?” “I wanted to knock him down, the little moth-eaten angel,” said the Bishop in recounting it afterwards.
[511] At Lincoln he had “a fair tomb of marble,” with the punning legend, “Longa terra mansura ejus, Dominus dedit.” The reference is to the Vulgate—Job xi. 9. At Eton he had an epitaph on brass.
[512] I never saw the beloved Lord Arthur Hervey again: he died June 1894.
[513] From “Sussex.”
[514] From “Sussex.”
[515] Lord John George Beresford.
[516] G. V. Watts, R.A.
[517] Henry Fuseli or Fuessli, an Anglo-Swiss.
[518] The famous J. M. W. Turner.
[519] The Marquises of Sligo are Earls of Altamont.
[520] From “The Gurneys of Earlham.”
[521] Carlyle.
[522] Chateaubriand.
[523] From “North-Western France.”
[524] From “North-Western France.”
[525] From “North-Western France.”
[526] From “North-Western France.”
[527] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[528] Alas! this was actually the case a very few months afterwards. The dear Canon Venables died of influenza on the 5th of March 1895, and his gentle loving wife only survived him one day.
[529] She was daughter of an Earl of Thanet.
[530] Shakspeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
[531] “Whose voice seemed faint through long disuse of speech.”
[532] Of “Diana Tempest,” &c.
[533] In “The High Tide in Lincolnshire.”
[534] Philip Henry, 4th Earl.
[535] Jerome K. Jerome.
[536] Memoires de “Madame.”
[537] “John Inglesant.”
[538] Henri Frederic Amiel.
[539] Louisa May, daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
[540] In three years the sale amounted to 87,000 copies.
[541] Daughter of Rev. Edward Payson, afterwards Mrs. Hopkins.
[542] Thomas Hardy, the novelist, resides at Max Gale, near Dorchester, amid the scenery of his Wessex novels and stories.
[543] Mrs. Beecher Stowe in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
[544] The others were Lady Wellesley, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. M’Tavish.
[545] Bought out of a cart in Paris, died 1753.
[546] The second saying, ‘I have been here three months, and have seen a little;’—the third, ‘I have been here three years, and am only beginning to understand it.’
[547] Alfred Tennyson in 1892.
[548] George Eliot’s Letters.
[549] This very popular and promising son of Lord Carlisle was killed at the battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898.
[550] Wordsworth.
[551] Coleridge, ‘Fears in Solitude.’
[552] “Arridet placidum radiis crispantibus aequor.”—Rutilius.
[553] Lady Winchelsea’s “Reverie.”
[554] Eccl. vii. 29.
[555] De Musset.
[556] Author of “A Lilac Sun-Bonnet,” &c.
[557] Author of “A Window in Thrums,” which brought him £4000.
[558] Madame de Staël.
[559] Afterwards bought by his descendant for £8000.
[560] Killed, alas! in the South African War of 1900.
[561] Died 1839.
[562] The American edition, omitting nothing and doing full justice to the woodcuts, is in two rather thin volumes.
[563] Washington Irving’s Letters.
[564] Anthony Hope in “Mr. Witt’s Widow.”
[565] Née De Bunsen.
[566] Said by Wasisewski of Catherine II. of Russia.
[567] Florence Montgomery in “Colonel Norton.”
[568] “Colonel Norton.”
[569] See Vol. i.
[570] Elisée Reclus.
[571] Carlyle.
[572] Rev. Joseph Parker.
[573] Burns.
[574] John Bright.
[575] Purg. v. 13-15.
[576] Browning.
[577] Of 60 Grosvenor Street.
[578] Tennyson.
[579] Pierre Loti.
[580] Frances, daughter of Pierce Butler of Philadelphia by Fanny Kemble, his wife, married to the Hon. James Wentworth Leigh, Dean of Hereford.
[581] Politian.
[582] Henry Taylor, “The Eve of the Conquest.”
[583] Catherine Stanley—Mrs. C. Vaughan.
[584] S. Simon.
[585] Trans. by Lowell.
[586] “Von dem Fesseln geistiger Berniertheit.”—Goethe.
[587] Gabrielle d’Annunzio.
[588] Tennyson.
[589] Margaret L. Woods.
[590] “Nich. Brome slew ye minister of Baddesley church, findynge him in his pier (parlour) chockinge his wife under ye chinne, and to expiate these bloody offences and crimes, he built ye steeple and raysed ye church body 10 foote higher, as is seene at this day in ye churche, and boughte 3 belles for ye same churche. In his epitaph in ye churche, ye building of ye churche and steeple was expressed; he died ye 29 daye of August, ano 1517. I have seen ye king’s pdon for itt, and ye Pope’s pdon, and the penance there enjoined him.”—MS. of Henry Ferrers, quoted by Dugdale. (Nich. Brome really died October 1517.)
[591] “Quiet Hours.”
[592] Johnson on Levett.
[593] Shakspeare, ‘King Lear.’
[594] See vol. i. p. 186.
[595] Lowell.
[596] Whittier.
[597] S. T. Coleridge, Letter to Thomas Poole.
[598] Old Play.
[599] George Eliot.
[600] J. Greenleaf Whittier, Letters, 1867.
[601] “Roderick.”
[602] Blake.
[603] Henri Frédéric Amiel.
[604] From the Introduction to the Bùstàn of Shaikh Mushlihu-d-dín Sa’di Shírází. Translated by Sir E. Strachey.
[605] E. Spenser.