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332 In the picture-gallery at Etheringhame Castle hangs a portrait, which bears not the name and claims no affinity with the noble race around; yet the spectator often pauses before it, to ask who is that glad and girlish-looking beauty? and the answer. is, "An early and beloved friend of the Countess's, who died young." There is also one other memorial of the departed—a small marble tablet in the village church, near what was once Arundel Hall, hangs amid the scutcheons of her house: it bears a brief inscription: