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24 in her own generation, for the natural goodness and amiability which unfortunately do not always go hand in hand with the sincerest piety.

Mrs. Wesley had been very happy in the brotherly friendship which existed between her own husband and her sister and Mr. Dunton, and felt the bereavement deeply. Mr. Wesley wrote the epitaph which was engraved on Mrs. Dunton's tomb in Buuhill Fields, and, though it was the fashion of the day to attribute every virtue under the sun to those who had epitaphs written for them, it was acknowledged by general consent that every word of it was true:—

The two sisters were considered very much alike both in person and character, so that anything recorded of