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 somewhat too generally mistimed or misplaced, for lack of fit or full occasion to call it forth, which makes him always less ready to 'go with sir priest than sir knight'—all these points are relieved and combined with a skill and strength of touch, perhaps incomparable in the work of any other woman.

But time and cunning would fail us to discover, as art and eloquence would fail us to commend, a tithe of the examples that might and should be cited in evidence of that noble and fruitful genius which found in the frail temple of her mortal life a minister so high and pure of spirit, so faithful and heroic of heart. Nowhere is its peculiar gift of subtle and pathetic veracity more notable than in the brief last pages written between the too closely neighbouring dates of her