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visitors we. had none except Lady Frances Higginson and her daughter Adelaide/ who came every morning to sou my mother. At this time Henry Alford, afterwards Dean of Canterbury, was preaching at Quebec Chapel, and I used to go to hear him on Sundays.
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u (} (rrtwrcn-ur Crvwcnh Jttn. 21. The mother had fever again in the* night, and told Lea in the morning that she had IKH?U in the Revelation**, and who seemed indeed to have seen all that is there doHcribed. She has talked much Hinr.o of the Holy City and the golden palace as of something H!U> had looked upon. 'What a comfort it is,' who 8iii(U 4 that rny visions do not take me to Hurstmonceaux: I do not know how I eould bear that.* It is indeed a comfort. She sewns always only to BOO things most beautiful, and more of heaven than of earth.
4fc4 After you left me, hint night,' she said, fcl heard on one? «Icla of my bt»d the wont beautiful, music. Oh, it was nioMt IwautifulI numl grand! — a sort of military march it seemed—-ebbing and rising and then dying Hoftly and #«'UtIy a\vuy* I'lieii, on the other Hide of my hod, I saw an open rlnirtter, and presently I Haw that it wan lined with 'liuol children. IJy-and-by (1liarlott« (uune, out fhinii. Now, I thought, I can nee, by watching hi*i\ whether thin t» a picture or whether it in a reality: hut, an my «*ycH tuihiwed her, nhe took out lu»,r haudker-chief iitid did evi'rything HO exactly an (Charlotte really dtu*H, that 1 fcltMtuv it wiw a rtiality/
**ThiM stiurniti^ iw I him* been witting by my mother, I
have Iit4fi*it4*d» AH «ht! lay dossing, nho Hpoko in pauHOH — ' 1
wi*4i thn w*!! ft in a very niittty morning, a wrj/ misty morn-
itig • Th«w* in ii wliit« bcwt toHning in the diHtanco — It is
black* ii in HO very miHty ™ There is something
Mrs* Owen Grant. jile-ra died, Mrs. 1*. t««»k it herself sind \va> Havt»d hy constantly swallttwin^ ice,