[5] The curious may read it in Blackwood’s Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. CCIV, or in Sir Adolphus Ward’s Biographical Introduction.
So you see that she had already made Manchester her home, and was already interested in the poor.
Also one may interpose here that (without evidence of her portrait) she was acknowledged by all who met her to be a person of quite remarkable beauty, and as little conscious of it as any beautiful woman has any right to be: since as Jaques noted:
if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.
Above all, she had the ineffable charm of being the least assertive, the most concerned with others, in any company. I think that of her rather than of any other writing-woman one may quote Mrs. Browning’s lines on her Kate—
I doubt if she said to you much that could act
As a thought or suggestion: she did not attract
In the sense of the brilliant or wise: I infer
’Twas her thinking for others made you think of her.