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 lovable human beings that ever walked upon the earth. There was no quality wanting to her perfection, and this I say, not with the partiality of a son, but as one well acquainted with the world, and with both men and women. I doubt whether there have been any who combined, with so high a spirit, such strong unerring good sense, tact, and discretion."

She was the most womanly of women. No thought of fame, no wish for it, ever seems to have crossed her mind. And yet to those who do not ask, the wished-for boon sometimes comes.

In the backwoods of America, in the swamps of distant lands beyond the seas, the ballads of the Irish Emigrant, and of Terence's Farewell to Kathleen, may often be heard. And surely this is fame.