[541] Daughter of Rev. Edward Payson, afterwards Mrs. Hopkins.
[542] Thomas Hardy, the novelist, resides at Max Gale, near Dorchester, amid the scenery of his Wessex novels and stories.
[543] Mrs. Beecher Stowe in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
[544] The others were Lady Wellesley, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. M’Tavish.
[545] Bought out of a cart in Paris, died 1753.
[546] The second saying, ‘I have been here three months, and have seen a little;’—the third, ‘I have been here three years, and am only beginning to understand it.’
[547] Alfred Tennyson in 1892.
[548] George Eliot’s Letters.
[549] This very popular and promising son of Lord Carlisle was killed at the battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898.
[550] Wordsworth.