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 most beautiful effusions of conjugal tenderness to be fband in tin compass of poetry.

Her husband, Count de Surville, closed his brief career at the siege of Orleans, where he fought under the banner of Joan of Arc. He was a gallant and a loyal knight; so were hundreds of others who then strewed the desolated fields of France; and De Surville had fallen undistinguished amid the general havoc of all that was noble and brave, if the love and genius of his wife had not immortalized him.

Clotilde, after her loss, resided in the château of her husband, in the Lyonnois, devoting herself to literature and the education of her son; and it is very remarkable, considering the times in which she lived, that she neither married again nor entered a religious house. The fame of her poetical talents, which she continued to cultivate in her retirement, rendered her at length an object of celebrity and interest. The Duke of Orleans happened one day to repeat some of her verses to Margaret of Scotland, the first wife of Louis the Eleventh, and that accomplished patroness of poetry and poets wrote her an invitation to attend her at court, which Clotilde modestly declined. The queen then sent her, as a token of her admiration and friendship, a wreath of laurel, surmounted with a bouquet of daisies, (Marguerites, in allusion to the name of both,) the leaves of which were wrought in silver and the flowers in gold, with this inscription: "Marguèrite d'Ecosse a Marguèrite d'Helicon." We are told that Alain Chartier, envious, perhaps, of these distinctions, wrote a satirical quatrain, in which he accused Clotilde of being deficient in l'air de cour; and that she replied to him, and defended herself, in a very spirited rondeau. Nothing more is known of the life of this interesting woman, but that she had the misfortune to survive her son as well as her husband; and dying at the advanced age of ninety, in 1495: she was buried with them in the same tomb.

SUTHERLAND, HARRIET ELIZABETH GEORGIANA, the third daughter of George, third Earl of Carlisle, and in every respect one of the very noblest of England's female aristocracy. As Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, and wife of the Duke of Sutherland, a nobleman of immense wealth and influence, she naturally takes her place as leader in the world of haut ton. But all this would not entitle her to her place in our volume, were it not that her high rank and brilliant personal qualifications are enriched and enhanced by her noble qualities of mind and heart. Foremost in rank, she is also so in good works, and in 1853 placed herself at the head of a popular movement against slavery. At Stafford House, her town residence, meetings were held, and there was drawn up the celebrated address from the ladies of England to those of America, which received an immense number of signatures, and expressed in strong, yet kind and womanly terms, the sorrow and reprobation with which negro slavery was viewed by the greater half of the people of this country. At Stafford House, too, Mrs. Stowe was entertained like a sister, the aristocracy of rank and the aristocracy of mind being there exhibited in their true filial relationship. High as the Duchess of Sutherland's name stands in the roll of British nobility, yet does it stand, as it will ever do, higher and shine brighter in that of good and philanthropic woman.