“O Lord, in Thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded.”[242]
SIR HARRY’S CHAPEL.
(His monument is on the left.)
From a watercolour by Mrs. B. S. Ward.
[Opposite p. 684.
On Sir Harry’s tomb in the cemetery, Lady Smith caused to be inscribed the last sentences of the extract from the Duke of Wellington’s speech of 2nd April, 1846, given above (pp. 558-560), though in a slightly different version.
After her husband’s death, Lady Smith resided for some years at 19, Robertson Terrace, Hastings, and later at 79, Cadogan Place, S.W. Passionately cherishing her husband’s memory, she was the beloved friend of all members of his family, and the goodness of heart and active sympathy which she showed to some who were heavy-laden will never be forgotten by their descendants. The editor of this book recalls from his boyhood the proud and animated tones in which she would speak of “Your uncle Harry”—pronouncing the name with the full Continental a and a strongly trilled r. Her noble heart ceased to beat on the 10th October, 1872, and she was laid with her hero in his last resting-place at Whittlesey.