[428] A much-loved cousin and friend; her mother was a Grey, and my Mother's first-cousin.
[429] This is said often to happen in case of a death. At Holmhurst it was most remarkable. They never appeared after that night till the night of October 18, 1882, when my dear old nurse was dying. I have been laughed at for narrating this, but the noise of crickets at a death is spoken of in Ecclesiastes xii. 5—"And the grasshopper shall be a burden, because man goeth to his long home."
[430] Jeremy Taylor.
[431] Harriet Bentley, Lea's niece—her much-attached housemaid.
[432] Of "Walks in Rome."
[433] Putting up a heating apparatus in the passages.
[434] The tenants of Hurstmonceaux Place, the old home of the family.
[435] A poor woman at "Lime Cross," constantly visited by my Mother.
[436] My father's half-sister, who had seldom treated me even with humanity.
[437] All old servants.