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 was performed by the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Ossory. Mr. Becher settles £1,000 a year on the lady, and refuses to take a shilling of her fortune, which she has settled on her family as follows:—On her father and mother £500 a year, her brother Robert £300 a year, her second brother, in the 44th Regiment, £200 a year, and the sum of £5,000 on her sister."

Altogether, in the course of five years, she had realised the sum of £30,000, and though she was called avaricious, not a penny was kept for herself. So, at the age of eight and twenty, Eliza O'Neill was lost to the stage, and never returned to it, not even in the cause of charity. Soon after the marriage, by the death of his uncle, Mr. Becher succeeded to the baronetcy, and from henceforth the famous actress led the life of a baronet's wife in a pleasant nook in the County Cork, rarely leaving a home endeared to her by many ties.

In that amusing book, "On and off the Stage," by Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft, it is related that when Lady Becher was quite an old woman she happened to be in London, and went to the Garrick Club to see her own portrait, which now adorns the staircase. She stood before it for some time, and then burst into tears. Probably, her bygone triumphs were unrolled before her—again she heard the shouts of applause,—again she saw the