. The Countess of Huntingdon and her circle . d my peace. Upon leaving the room these words wereimpressed upon my heart : Thy Maker is thyHusband; the Lord of Hosts is His Name.* Thusdid the Lord comfort, support and refresh my soulduring the first days of my widowhood. But her biographer was right in summing up themelancholy occasion as a great and affectingbereavement which, when the reaction came, shefelt deeply. Both husband and wife were in the prime of lifeand in the noonday of prosperity. He was nomore than thirty-three, she was thirty years. With all his failings, he was in the near re
. The Countess of Huntingdon and her circle . d my peace. Upon leaving the room these words wereimpressed upon my heart : Thy Maker is thyHusband; the Lord of Hosts is His Name.* Thusdid the Lord comfort, support and refresh my soulduring the first days of my widowhood. But her biographer was right in summing up themelancholy occasion as a great and affectingbereavement which, when the reaction came, shefelt deeply. Both husband and wife were in the prime of lifeand in the noonday of prosperity. He was nomore than thirty-three, she was thirty years. With all his failings, he was in the near relationof husband, and had been her constant companionfor the last ten years. Without question he wasattached to her, though he might show his attach-ment in an undesirable fashion. The last con-sideration of all to a woman who had already feltand owned that her wealth, rank and influenceconstituted her greatest burden, was the considera-tion that with the life of her husband was boundup the continuance and increase of her worldlyhonours. 204. REPUTED LIKENESS OF LADY GLENORCHY By permission oj the Governors of Cheshunt College, Cambridge LORD GLENORCHYS WILL Far more overwhelming to a nature such as herswa? the forgiving tenderness which forgot andblotted out, with a freeness and fulness akin tothe love of God all the errors and shortcomingsof the dead, and remembered only with piteous,affectionate regard his acts of kindness. All that was mortal of Lord Glenorchy wastaken north to the family burying-place at Finlarigon Loch Tay, and Lady Glenorchy withdrew withLord Breadalbane to Holyrood. She had notceased to be the sorrowing fathers cherisheddaughter because the son who had been the linkbetween them was gone. Lady Glenorchy of course knew that her jointurewas a thousand pounds a year, but she had notbeen aware, till Lord Glenorchys repositories wereexamined, that six months before his death theyoung man, with something like an intimation ofhis approaching end, had signed two
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