appreciate her, who delighted in her wit and work,
and who, with a coterie of others of that period who
are still in remembrance, considered her one of
the brightest ornaments of their society.

"A fair, fresh complexion... bright, intelligent,
hazel eyes, and hair of a jetty blackness, will give
you some idea of her looks--the crowning glory
of which was the forehead that surpassed in beauty
any I ever saw, and was the admiration of my
mature years. I portray her, with the exception
of the hair, as she appeared to me in her eighty-eighth
year. I never tired of gazing on her youthful com-
plexion--upon her eyes which retained their youthful
luster unimpaired, and enabled her to read without
any artificial aid; and upon her hand and arm,
which, though shrunken much from age, must in her
younger days have been fit study for a sculptor.

"Her character was everything that was lovely.
A lady who had known her many years, writing
to me after her death, says, 'Never shall I forget
her unceasing kindness to me, and her noble and
generous disposition. From my first acquaintance
with her, and amid all the varied trials through
which she was called to pass, I had ever occasion
to admire the calm and Christian spirit she uniformly
exhibited. To you I will say it, I never knew
so faultless a character--so gentle, so kind. That

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