. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ess, I could indeed sleep, but I must notgive way. Death is too near, and he must not steal upon me fifteen years I have been making ready for him and now I will meethim awake. Fifteen years before, her beloved husband had been snatched from hersuddenly, and ever since then she had worn widows weeds and had lookedupon herself as having done with the world. He had died on the i8th ot themonth, and the 18th of every month following had been for her a day ofso
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ess, I could indeed sleep, but I must notgive way. Death is too near, and he must not steal upon me fifteen years I have been making ready for him and now I will meethim awake. Fifteen years before, her beloved husband had been snatched from hersuddenly, and ever since then she had worn widows weeds and had lookedupon herself as having done with the world. He had died on the i8th ot themonth, and the 18th of every month following had been for her a day ofsolitary prayer. On the i8th of every August, that being her husbandsdeath-day, she had descended into the vaults of the Stephans Kirche andprayed beside his tomb there. On the last occasion something had brokenor given way in the apparatus by which she descended, and she had regardedthis as an omen of her coming end—an omen now fulfilled. She died witha smile on her face. Across the dark river she thought she saw the spirit ofher husband, awaiting her with outstretched arms. Authorities: T. Carlyle; J. F. Bright. 119. Diderot. Fi-otit nn i:ngra7in,^ Iv Ryder. No. 56 The Death of Denis Diderot. Born at Langres in Champagne, 15th Odlober 17 13. Died in Paris 30th July 1784. IN 1773 Diderot undertook a journey to St. Petersburg to thank theEmpress Catherine for the many benefits she had heaped upon had hoped to return to France by way of Berlin, but Frederick theGreat offered him no inducement or welcome. That monarch indeed was noappreciator of Diderots undoubted talents. In a letter to Mons. dAlemberthe wrote: On dit qua Petersbourg on trouve Diderot raisonneur rabache sans cesse les memes choses. Ce que je sais, cest que je nesaurais soutenir la lecture de ses livres, tout intrepide lecteur que je y regne un ton suffisant et une arrogance qui revoke Iinstinct de maliberte. Diderot was indeed a professed atheist, and loved to sustain his opinionswith
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