[1] See Lord Chesterfield's Letters.
[2] Dr. Johnson, "The Idler," No. 84.
[3] Epitaph at Hurstmonceaux.
[4] Principal of New Inn Hall, and afterwards Rector of Hurstmonceaux.
[5] The 4th Earl of Crawford.
[6] In her marriage contract (of 1792) with Lord Edward Fitz Gerald,
Pamela was described as the daughter of Guillaume de Brixey and Mary
Sims, aged nineteen, and born at Fogo in Newfoundland. In Madame de
Genlis's Memoirs, it is said that one Parker Forth, acting for the Duke
of Orleans, found, at Christ Church in Hampshire, one Nancy Sims, a
native of Fogo, and took her to Paris to live with Madame de Genlis, and
teach her royal pupils English. An Englishman named Sims was certainly
living at Fogo at the end of the last century, and his daughter Mary
sailed for Bristol with an infant of a year old, in a ship commanded by
a Frenchman named Brixey, and was never heard of again.
[7] Edward Fox Fitz Gerald died Jan. 25, 1863: his widow lived
afterwards at Heavitree near Exeter, where she died Nov. 2, 1891.
[8] I have dwelt upon the first connection of Madame Victoire Ackermann
with our family, not only because her name frequently occurs again in
these Memoirs, but because they are indebted to notes left by her for
much of their most striking material. I have never known any person more
intellectually interesting, for the class to which she belonged, than
Victoire. Without the slightest exaggeration, and with unswerving
rectitude of intention, her conversation was always charming and
original, and she possessed the rare art of narration in the utmost
perfection.
[9] Francis Hare and his father had both been born abroad.
[10] See the chapter called "Home Portraiture" in "Memorials of a Quiet
Life."
[11] Edward Leycester had taken the name of Penrhyn with the fortune of
his father's cousin, Lady Penrhyn of Penrhyn Castle. His wife was Lady
Charlotte Stanley, daughter of the 13th Earl of Derby.
[12] Second daughter of Sir John Stanley, afterwards 1st Lord Stanley of
Alderley, and niece of the Rev. Edward Stanley, Maria Leycester's
brother-in-law.
[13] Edward Stanley, Rector of Alderley and afterwards Bishop of
Norwich, had married my mother's only sister, Catherine Leycester
("Kitty"), who was seven years older than herself.
[14] "Maurice was by nature puzzle-headed, and, though in a beautiful
manner, wrong-headed; while his clear conscience and keen affections
made him egotistic, and, in his Bible reading, as insolent as any
infidel of them all."--_Ruskin_, "_Præterita_."
[15] R. Holt Hutton.
[16] The child was only three.
[17] George Herbert.
[18] This half-aunt of mine was living in 1894, having long been the
widow of the Rev. F. D. Maurice. I had not seen her for more than thirty
years before her death. I could not say I adored all the Maurices: it
would have been an exaggeration. So she did not wish to see me.
[19] The Rev. R. Chenevix Trench, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin. The
fact was, his were very pleasant children, and therefore I liked them;
but I was expected to like all children, whatever their characters, and
scolded if I did not.
[20] My uncle Julius Hare's Recollections.
[21] From the notes of Francis Hare's life by Madame Victoire Ackermann.
[22] See Crabbe Robinson's Diary.
[23] He died Rector of North Creake, April 1894.
[24] Merry Wives of Windsor.
[25] Afterwards Mrs. Chatterton.
[26] Ann, Viscountess Hill, died Oct. 31, 1891.
[27] Recollections of Canon Venables, his sometime curate.
[28] Long afterwards I learned that it is recorded in legal proceedings,
how Giles de Fienes (of Hurstmonceaux) brought a suit against Richard de
Pageham for the violent abduction of his wife Sybil, daughter of William
Filiol, on August 30, 1223. I suppose Richard employed the gipsies as
his intermediaries.
[29] She had told Landor so.
[30] The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, Prebendary of Norwich and Woodwardian
Professor of Geology, died Jan. 27, 1873.
[31] Mrs. Vaughan.
[32] De Quincey says that Wordsworth was the only poet he ever met who
could do this, and certainly it is my experience.
[33] To be without (a husband) is bare but it's easy.
[34] Harriet survived all her sisters for many years, as the wife of
Edward Plumptre, Dean of Wells. She died in 1890. A charming account of
her has appeared in Boyd's "Twenty-five Years at St. Andrews:" I thought
her most unlike it.
[35] Actual cases.
[36] Memoires de "Madame," Lettre du 18 Juillet 1700.
[37] R. Browning.
[38] He afterwards married my cousin Lady Elizabeth Yorke.
[39] Robert Smith, who afterwards married my connection Isabel Adeane.
[40] Afterwards Lord Radstock.
[41] Son of the Bishop of London, Alfred Blomfield, afterwards himself
Bishop of Colchester.
[42] Afterwards 4th Earl of Mount Edgecumbe.
[43] Afterwards 14th Lord Saye and Sele.
[44] This account is not the least exaggerated. I remember the storm as
one of the most awful things I ever saw. At this time and long
afterwards I was always very ill in a thunderstorm.--1894.
[45] Dr. Whately.
[46] This eccentric Lord Shrewsbury lived in great pomp at Alton Towers,
with an intense parade of magnificence. Once a large party staying there
included a French Countess of very noble lineage. One day after
breakfast he went up to her in his courteous way and said, "Madame, what
will you be pleased to do to-day? will you walk, or ride, or
drive?"--"Oh, it is a delightful day, I should like to drive."--"Then,
madame, would you prefer an open or a close carriage?"--"Oh, an open
carriage, if you please."--"And, madame, how many horses will you
have?"--"Oh, four-and-twenty horses of course," she said laughing, "you
know I never go out without four-and-twenty horses." The afternoon came,
and at the appointed hour Lord Shrewsbury came to the lady and said,
"The carriage is at the door, madame, the horses are there, but I must
apologise for having only one outrider." She rushed to the window, and,
to her horror, saw a carriage to which four-and-twenty grey horses were
harnessed, each pair being furnished with a postillion. Utterly
terrified, the lady declared that nothing should make her drive with
them, but her fellow-guests assured her she must. So at last she got in,
and the twenty-four horses took her for a short drive in the park. Then
Lord Shrewsbury had pity upon her, and twenty-two were unharnessed, and
she finished her drive with a pair.--_Mr. E. Hussey's Reminiscences._
[47] A very kind friend of mine, afterwards Precentor of Lincoln.
[48] William Wentworth Buller of Strete Raleigh in Devonshire.
[49] Hon. R. J. Harris Temple, eldest son of the second marriage of the
second Lord Harris with Miss Isabella Helena Temple of Waterstown.
[50] "No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether
irreclaimably bad."--_Carlyle_, "_Sartor Resartus_."
[51] There is really no end to the absurd calumnies which I have heard
circulated during my life about dear old Mr. Landor, the kindest, most
refined, most courteous, and most genial, though most irascible of men.
But nothing that ever was said about him was so utterly absurd as Mr.
Adolphus Trollope's statement that he neglected the use of the letter
_h_ in conversation. I lived with him in close intimacy for years, and I
never once traced the slightest indication of his ever dropping the
aspirate; indeed, no one was more particular in inculcating its proper
use.
[52] The vaults of St. Martin's Church have been emptied since.
[53] Hugh Stuart Brown.
[54] Eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle, brother of the
8th Earl of Cork. The brothers had married sisters, daughters of W.
Poyntz of Midgeham--our distant cousins.
[55] _Née_ Caroline Amelia Poyntz.
[56] Miss Mary Boyle died in 1890.
[57] Mrs. FitzGerald's.
[58] My Uncle Wentworth married the Countess Marie Benningsen, whose
father was one of those who murdered the Emperor Paul of Russia. They
had four children.
[59] Thomas à Kempis.
[60] "Walks in London."
[61] Parnell, "Rise of Woman."
[62] August 4, 1851.
[63] A well-known starting-point in the valley below where the Holborn
Viaduct now is.
[64] Seventh daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth, whose wife was my
grandmother's only sister.
[65] Grandson of my adopted grandfather's elder brother.
[66] Madame de Staël.
[67] Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 5th son of George III.
[68] The 8th Earl of Denbigh, as Lord Feilding, married, 1st, Louisa,
daughter of David Pennant, Esq., and Lady Emma Pennant.
[69] The whole of this account was corrected by Lord Feilding, then Earl
of Denbigh.
[70] "He spoke of the twin brothers George and James Macdonald as two
simple, single-minded, and veracious men, and more than this, as
eminently godly men. He described how the healing of their sister
occurred. She had lain for long bedridden and entirely helpless. One day
they had been praying earnestly beside her, and one of the brothers,
rising from prayers, walked to the bed, held out his hand, and, naming
his sister, bade her arise. She straightway did so, and continued ever
after entirely healed, and with full use of her limbs."--J. C. SHAIRP,
"Thomas Erskine."
[71] Cecil, widow of the 7th Marquis.
[72] Under Dean Powys.
[73] How seeing many people and characters makes one sympathise with the
observation of the Duchesse d'Orleans: "En fait de dévotion, je vois que
chacun suit son humeur; ceux qui aiment à bavarder veulent beaucoup
prier; ceux qui ont l'âme libérale veulent toujours faire des aumônes;
ceux qui sont gais pensent très bien servir Dieu, en se rejouissant de
tout, et en ne se fachant de rien. En somme, la dévotion est, pour ceux
qui s'y adonnent, la pierre de touche qui fait connaître leur humeur."
[74] Grote's History was coming out at this time, and I had got into
terrible disgrace with the Stanleys from knowing nothing about it.
[75] The Spitz dog.
[76] There are 6000 Béguines in Belgium, nuns bound by no vow, and free
to return to the world if they wish. While they wear the habit of their
Order, they live in a colony, but in separate houses, and devote their
whole lives to temporal works of mercy.
[77] Carl Friedrich Meyer, for some time German secretary and librarian
to Prince Albert.
[78] Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir William Clinton of Cokenach.
[79] Louisa Dorothea, widow of Lieutenant-General Sir William Clinton,
was daughter of the 1st Baron Sheffield, and younger sister of Maria
Josepha, 1st Lady Stanley of Alderley. We had always visited her on the
way to Norwich.
[80] Afterwards (1878) Master of Balliol. He died October 1893.
[81] Dr. Plumptre.
[82] Authoress of "Sickness, its Trials and Blessings," &c.
[83] Afterwards Canon of Windsor.
[84] Mother of Mrs. Marcus Hare.
[85] William Henry Milligan, afterwards of the Ecclesiastical Commission
Office.
[86] Minor Canon of Westminster (1894).
[87] Eldest son of Sir J. Barrow.
[88] Fourth son of Sir Robert Sheffield of Normanby in Lincolnshire.
[89] Kingsley's "Saint's Tragedy," which Uncle Julius had read aloud to
us, and afterwards Montalembert's Life, had made me very familiar with
her story.
[90] An old monastic farm on the Levels, between Hailsham and
Eastbourne. The internal interest of the Wartburg has long since been
"restored" away, and its rooms blaze with gilding and colour.
[91] See p. 289.
[92] I was altogether a disappointment to Professor Jowett. I did not
get on in the line in which he wished me to get on, and in what I was
able to do in after life he had no interest whatever. He dropped me
after I left Oxford. I seldom saw him again, and he never knew, perhaps,
how grateful I felt for his long-ago kindness. Professor Benjamin Jowett
died at Headley Hall, in Hampshire, October 1, 1893.
[93] Of Eccles Greig, near Forfar.
[94] It would be impossible to discover a more perfect old "gentleman"
than Dr. Plumptre, though he was often laughed at. When he was inquiring
into any fault, he would begin with, "Now pray take care what you say,
because whatever you say I shall believe." He had an old-fashioned
veneration for rank, and let Lord Egmont off lectures two days in the
week that he might hunt--"it was so suitable."
[95] Dr. Hawkins.
[96] Dean Gaisford.
[97] Walter Berkeley, 4th son of the 1st Viscount Portman.
[98] This was so at that time: now it would be thought nothing of.
[99] Wife of John Henry Parker, the publisher, a peculiar but excellent
person.
[100] The portrait of Mrs. Hare Naylor by Flaxman, now at Holmhurst.
[101] Afterwards Mrs. Owen Grant.
[102] Coleridge.
[103] The High Church author, son of my father's first cousin, Charles
Shipley.
[104] I have always thought that Sir John Paul must have been rather
mad. After he had done his best to ruin all his family, and had totally
ruined hundreds of other people, he said very complacently, "This is the
Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."
[105] My mother in her youth had often visited the ladies at Plas
Newydd--Lady Eleanor Butler (ob. 1829, æt. 90) and Miss Sarah Ponsonby
(ob. 1831, æt. 76). They always wore men's hats and waistcoats, short
petticoats and thick boots.
[106] William Owen Stanley, twin brother of Edward-John, 2nd Lord
Stanley of Alderley.
[107] "Quite untrue, probably."--Note by the Dean of Llandaff, formerly
head-master of Harrow, who read this in MS.
[108] Hon. Carolina Courtenay Boyle
[109] The declaration had already been made in private to Lady Stratford
de Redcliffe at Constantinople.
[110] Rectors of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and St. Barnabas', Pimlico.
[111] Daughters of the Dean of Bristol.
[112] Daughter of my great-great-uncle T. Lyon of Hetton.
[113] How little those who idolise him in theory attend to the precept
of their beloved Luther: "If anywhere Sunday is made holy for the mere
day's sake,--if any one anywhere sets up its observance as a Jewish
foundation, then I order you to work on it, to dance on it, to do
anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian
liberty."--_Table-Talk._
[114] Count Aurelio Saffi died 1890, and is buried at Forli.
[115] Princess Charlotte of Belgium.
[116] Since well known from the tragic death of the Crown Prince
Rudolph.
[117] Now a crowded resort of royalty.
[118] In 1895 I retain the lakes of Gosau in recollection as amongst the
most beautiful places I have ever visited.
[119] From "Northern Italy."
[120] From "Central Italy."
[121] From "Central Italy."
[122] From "Central Italy."
[123] From "Days near Rome."
[124] Teresa, Princess Borghese, survived by two years the ruin of her
house, and died July 1894.
[125] Whose beautiful tomb, by Miss Hosmer, is in the Church of S.
Andrea delle Fratte at Rome.
[126] Whose fine portrait of himself is in the Uffizi at Florence.
[127] From "Days near Rome."
[128] From "Southern Italy."
[129] The familiar term expressing "a rascal of a boy."
[130] From "Southern Italy."
[131] From "Southern Italy."
[132] From "Central Italy."
[133] From "Central Italy."
[134] From "Northern Italy."
[135] Ruskin, in his "Præterita," describes his father's astonishment
when he brought the maid of honour's petticoat, parrot, and blackamoor
home, as the best fruit of his summer at the court of Sardinia.
[136] From "Northern Italy."
[137] Walter Savage Landor was tried for libel at the suit of a lady, to
whom he had once shown great kindness, but of whom he had afterwards
written abusively. He fled from England to evade the severe fine imposed
upon him, which, however, was afterwards paid.
[138] Wordsworth, Lines written in Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."
[139] She had passed some time at Neuchâtel with her father in 1818, and
had seen much of the society there.
[140] The Marquise de Gabriac was daughter of the Maréchale Sebastiani,
and only sister of Madame Davidoff.
[141] He died at Lille, July 1891, aged 85.
[142] From "Paris."
[143] This story of the dream was only told me by the Duchess Wilhelmine
of Cleveland in 1887.
[144] From "Paris."
[145] From "Days near Paris."
[146] A year afterwards I had occasion to visit Panizzi upon other
business, and I shall never forget the sharpness with which the astute
old man, recollecting the Archdeacon's letter, and entirely refusing to
recognise any other claim upon his time, turned upon me with, "Well now,
what do you know?--how many languages? what?--answer at once;" and I
could with difficulty make him understand that I did not want the
clerkship. Sir A. Panizzi died April 8, 1879. It was this Antonio
Panizzi who had the honour of being hanged in effigy by the Government
of Modena, after having escaped from an imprisonment (which would
doubtless have ended in his corporeal execution), for his efforts for
the regeneration of Sicily. He was declared liable for all the expenses
of the process, and the Cabinet of Modena, in all simplicity, wrote to
him in his security at Liverpool calling upon him to pay them!
[147] Ten guineas for a sheet, containing twenty-four pages of the close
double-columned type of Murray's Handbooks.
[148] John, 2nd Earl Brownlow.
[149] Of Hunstanton, eldest son of Mrs. Wynne Finch.
[150] Second son of the 5th Earl Stanhope.
[151] Now Sackville of Drayton Manor.
[152] Fourth son of Sir Adam Hay of King's Meadows.
[153] Fourth son of Sir Hedworth Williamson of Whitburn, and of the Hon.
Anne, 2nd daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.
[154] Eldest son of Sir Charles Wood, M.P., afterwards Viscount Halifax,
and of Lady Mary, 5th daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey.
[155] Hon. Mrs. Cradock, wife of the Principal of Brazenose--formerly a
Maid of Honour.
[156] Maria Josepha, daughter of the 1st Earl of Sheffield, and widow of
the first Lord Stanley of Alderley.
[157] Grandfather of the first Lord Knutsford.
[158] Mrs. Pelham Warren died in Nov. 1865.
[159] Mrs. Thornton, a most kind and admirable person, died Jan. 1889.
[160] Mrs. Dormer went to live at Flamborough in Yorkshire after the
death of her husband, and died there, Oct. 1892.
[161] Afterwards 14th Baron Saye and Sele.
[162] His handwriting was so illegible, that printers charged
half-a-crown a sheet extra for setting up each sheet of his "copy."
[163] The universally beloved Henry Octavius Coxe, Bodley's librarian
and Rector of Wytham, born 1811, died July 8, 1881.
[164] The Countess Valsamachi, formerly Mrs. Reginald Heber, was one of
the three daughters of Dean Shipley, and first cousin to my father.
[165] Mr. Thomas Erskine died March 28, 1870, having survived both his
sisters.
[166] Miss Clementina Stirling Graham died at Duntrune, August 23, 1877,
aged ninety-five.
[167] Earl of Dalhousie.
[168] My college friend Frederick Forsyth Grant.
[169] This is described in Lord Auckland's Correspondence.
[170] In May 1860.
[171] Fénélon.
[172] The voice which passed the lips of Madame de Trafford was often
like the voices of the Irvingites.
[173] Sometimes Madame de Trafford spoke of her spirits as "Les
Maricots."
[174]
"L'asciar l'amico!
Lo seguitai felice
Quand'era il cielo sereno:
Alle tempeste in seno
Voglio seguirlo ancor:
Ah cosi vil non sono."
--METASTASIO.
[175] Principal of New Inn Hall at Oxford.
[176] Our cousins through the Shipleys and Mordaunts.
[177] Grandson of Helena Selman, my great-grandmother's only sister.
[178] I wrote to Sir George Grey several times after this meeting, but
never saw him again till 1869 in Miss Wright's rooms in Belgrave
Mansions.
[179] Sydney Smith's daughter.
[180] Prescott, Washington Irving, Sir J. Stephen, Leigh Hunt, De
Quincey, Macaulay, Hallam.
[181] Ritter, Humboldt, Arndt.
[182] De Tocqueville.
[183] Afterwards Dean of Lincoln.
[184] The Rev. W. J. Butler, then Dean of Lincoln, and his wife, died
within a few weeks of each other in Jan. 1894.
[185] Wife of the Rev. William Gaskell, Unitarian minister of the Chapel
in Cross Street, Manchester. He died June 1884, aged eighty. She died
very suddenly in Nov. 1865.
[186] It is right to say that a very different account of Count de Salis
is given by many of his descendants from that which I wrote down from
the narrative of Dr. Hawtrey.
[187] Mrs. Fane de Salis told me (in 1891) that her mother-in-law had
described to her being with Miss Foster on the Pincio when the handsome
guardsman, Count Mastai, came courting.
[188] Hazeley Court.
[189] Maison Helvetia.
[190] From "South-Eastern France."
[191] From "South-Eastern France."
[192] From "Northern Italy."
[193] From "South-Eastern France."
[194] Rev. J. L. Petit.
[195] From "Northern Italy."
[196] Susan, 5th daughter of Thomas Lyon of Hetton, married the Rev. J.
Fellowes of Shottesham.
[197] The heroine of the wreck of the _Forfarshire_, Sept. 5, 1838.
[198] Only son of John, 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Mary Milner.
[199] Mary Eleanor Bowes, 9th Countess of Strathmore.
[200] Paulina, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn.
[201] Mrs. Clutterbuck was Marianne, youngest daughter of the Hon.
Thomas Lyon of Hetton, my great-grandmother's youngest brother.
[202] Afterwards Lord Wilfred Seymour.
[203] Arthur Stanley's account.
[204] Montesquieu.
[205] Notably the ballad of "Featherstonhaugh," which Sir Walter
inserted as ancient in his "Border Minstrelsy," introducing one stanza
in the poem of "Marmion" itself.
[206] My great-great-uncle, Thomas Lyon of Hetton, younger brother of
the 9th Earl of Strathmore, married Miss Wren (grand-daughter of Sir
Christopher), heiress of Binchester.
[207] Mr. John Clayton survived till July 1890, leaving personalty
valued at £728,000, and real property supposed to be worth £20,000 a
year. The last member of his generation, the universally beloved Mrs.
Anne Clayton, died October 30, 1890.
[208] Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce, author of "The Roman Wall," &c. He
lived till 1893, and is commemorated by a tomb in St. Nicholas,
Newcastle.
[209] Mr. Andersen had two daughters, my great-great-grandmother Mrs.
Simpson, and the Marchesa Grimaldi, great-grandmother of Stacey
Grimaldi, who was at this time trying to establish his claims to the
Principality of Monaco.
[210] Bradley was inherited and sold by Lord Ravensworth, and its
pictures removed to Eslington.
[211] The living of Blanchland was afterwards given by the Governors of
Bamborough to Mr. Gurley on his marriage with my cousin, Mary
Clutterbuck.
[212] The widow of Reginald Heber.
[213] The curious old muniment room at Ripley is now modernised, indeed
destroyed.
[214] Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough, and afterwards of
Salisbury--some time tutor to George III.
[215] General Scott had married the Hon. Alethea Stanley, sister of Mrs.
Marcus Hare
[216] It was rebuilt on a large scale in 1893.
[217] Well known from the ballad of "The Death of Parcy Reed."
[218] See the ballad of "Chevy Chase."
[219] Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Walter's cousin and heir, who read
this, asked me to add a note, and to say that though it is quite true
that Sir Walter was a miser, he was only a miser for philanthropic
purposes. He gave £60,000 at once for a railway which he thought would
benefit the district in which he lived, and his charities, though
eccentric, were quite boundless.
[220] Paulina, Lady Trevelyan, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jermyn, died in
1866. Sir Walter married afterwards a Miss Loft, and survived till 1879,
but I never saw him again.
[221] 1888.--Alas that I should have to add a note to say that the
mummy-case has been since discovered not to have belonged to a queen at
all, but to the court-jester!
[222] Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, married
(1835) Charles John, afterwards Viscount and Earl Canning and
Governor-General of India, and died at Calcutta, Nov. 18, 1861.
[223] From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."
[224] His great-grandmother, Lady Susan Lyon and my great-grandmother,
Lady Anne, were sisters.
[225] From "South-Eastern France."
[226] The celebrated Porson was given to such utter fits of absence that
he forgot he was married and dined out on the very day of the ceremony.
[227] From "South-Eastern France."
[228] From "North-Eastern France."
[229] Now (1895) pulled down.
[230] From "North-Eastern France."
[231] From "Days near Rome."
[232] Rev. E. Kershaw, afterwards chaplain to Earl De la Warr.
[233] Caroline, daughter of Richard, Lord Braybrooke, widow of the first
Lord Wenlock.
[234] From "Days near Rome."
[235] From "Days near Rome."
[236] All Mrs. Julius Hare's family of her generation have passed away:
_all_ to whom the story of my child life as connected with her could
give any pain.
[237] From "Southern Italy."
[238] Placed on the doors of Catholic churches and chapels.
[239] He died on the 17th of the following September.
"Oh, let him pass! he hates him much
That would upon the rack of this rough world
Stretch him out longer."--_King Lear._
[240] From "Northern Italy."
[241] Adèle, Madame Davidoff. See pp. 65, 115.
[242] From "South-Eastern France."
[243] The Venerable Gaspare del Bufalo, to whose influence the
foundation of the Order of the Precious Blood was due.
[244] Don Giovanni Merlini of the Crociferi.
[245] Mary Pierina Roleston, Superior of the Order of the Precious Blood
in England.
[246] Alas! after the Sardinian occupation of Rome, the Soras, then
Prince and Princess Piombino, were induced to sell all the grounds of
Villa Ludovisi, the noblest ornament of Rome; its magnificent groves of
ilex and cypress were cut down, and hideous stucco houses built over its
site.
[247] Lady Wenlock died May 1868.
[248] "The Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench," by her son Richard Chevenix
Trench, Dean of Westminster, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.
[249] The Rt. Hon. George Grenville, father of Catherine, Lady
Braybrooke.
[250] I give, of course, the words of Pierina.
[251] Paray le Monial, now so constant a resort of pilgrimages, was, up
to this time, almost unknown.
[252] From "South-Western France."
[253] These were the very early days of Arcachon.
[254] Born Julia Hare of Hurstmonceaux, a first cousin of my father.
[255] Edwin Dashwood was the son, and the first Mrs. Story had been the
daughter, of Emily Hare of Hurstmonceaux, sister of Mrs. Taylor.
[256] From "South-Western France."
[257] Her brother and sister, who had died long before.
[258] From "South-Western France."
[259] This I afterwards carried out in six unpublished volumes of the
Memoirs of the Hare Family.
[260] Spenser, "Faerie Queene."
[261] From "South-Western France."
[262] Wife of Sir George Robinson of Crauford.
[263] From "South-Western France."
[264] From "South-Western France."
[265] From "South-Western France."
[265a] From "South-Western France."
[266] Now terribly modernised and spoilt.
[267] "What is a miracle? Can there be a thing more miraculous than any
other thing?... I have _seen_ no man rise from the dead: I have seen
some thousands rise from _nothing_."--_Carlyle_.
[268] I do not think that this characteristic anecdote is preserved
elsewhere.
[269] Emma, widow of King Kaméhaméha IV., who died Nov. 30, 1863. She
was born Jan. 2, 1836, being daughter of George Naca, a native chief,
and of Fanny Yong. Charles Rooke, a rich doctor, adopted her, and left
her all his fortune. Having seen three kings succeed her husband, and
been equally honoured and respected by all, Queen Emma died in March
1885.
[270] From "Walks in London."
[271] From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."
[272] From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."
[273] Colonel Alexander Higginson of the Grenadier Guards, celebrated
for his silence, was keeping the door. He said not a word in answer to
all her entreaties, but dropped his sword as a barrier in front of the
Queen.--_Note from Mrs. Owen Grant, niece of Colonel A. Higginson._
[274] Caroline, daughter of Francis I., king of Naples, widow of the Duc
de Berri, younger son of Charles X.
[275] The Duc de Bordeaux (Comte de Chambord).
[276] The Archduchess Marie Therese, daughter of Francis IV., Duke of
Modena.
[277] Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, father of the Duc d'Enghien,
the last member of the House of Condé, who fought a duel with Charles X.
in 1776. He married Marie Thérèse d'Orleans in 1770.
[278] Marie Amelie, Duchesse d'Orleans, afterwards Queen of the French,
was daughter of Ferdinard I., king of the Two Sicilies, and sister of
Francis I., father of the Duchesse de Berri.
[279] The Duc de Bourbon left Madame de Feuchères two million francs,
the château and park of St. Leu, the château and estate of Boissy, and
all their dependencies: also a pavilion at the Palais Bourbon, valued at
fifteen million francs.
[280] Elizabeth, wife of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, and
daughter of James, 5th Earl of Balcarres.
[281] Colin, 3rd Earl of Balcarres.
[282] Anne, only daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton.
[283] The tune which then existed. The Hon. Mrs. Byron, a friend of Lady
Anne Barnard, afterwards gave the words to Lieutenant William Leeves,
1st Foot Guards, who composed the air to which they are now sung, in
imitation of old Scotch music. Lieutenant Leeves afterwards took orders
and became Rector of Wrington in Somersetshire, where he was the
intimate friend of Mrs. Hannah More, who lived in his parish. He died in
1828.
[284] From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."
[285] Augusta, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Glasgow.
[286] Lucia, eldest daughter of Lord Dover.
[287] Second daughter of the 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
[288] Maria, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley of Sprotborough.
[289] Hamilton, daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield, younger sister
of Lady Ruthven.
[290] My third cousin, George, 2nd Earl of Durham.
[291] Beatrix, second daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn. She died Jan.
1871.
[292] Mary, widow of the 5th Lord Ruthven, and daughter of Walter
Campbell of Shawfield.
[293] Catherine, daughter of Archdeacon Spooner. Her memoirs were
published by her husband, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1879.
[294] Daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland, afterwards Viscountess
Ossington
[295] Lady Anne Anson, second daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield.
[296] Afterwards 7th Earl of Aberdeen.
[297] Fourth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss.
[298] The "custom more honoured in the breach than the
observance."--_Hamlet._
[299] William Henry, 1st Duke of Cleveland, who died in 1842.
[300] Adam, fourth son of Sir Adam Hay of Haystoun, who had been one of
my greatest friends at Christ Church. He died May 1871.
[301] Lady Constance Talbot, daughter of the 19th Earl of Shrewsbury.
[302] Daughter of the 7th Earl of Leven.
[303] A Roman friend, brother of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart.
[304] From "Central Italy."
[305] Madame Victoire Ackermann. See vol. i.
[306] From "Central Italy."
[307] From "Central Italy."
[308] His mother was Susan, daughter of William Leycester, my mother's
first cousin. She was murdered during the Indian Mutiny, with her
husband and child.
[309] The famous S. Francesca Romana had been a member of the Ponziani
family.
[310] The Rev. Henry Arbuthnot Feilden married Ellinor, one of the
daughters of Edmund Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall in Lancashire--a very
old friend and connection of our family. Her sister Charlotte afterwards
married my first cousin--Oswald Penrhyn.
[311] Mr. Leycester Lyne, celebrated as a preacher and for his follies
in playing at monasticism. His mother was a Leycester of White Place,
descended from a younger branch of the Leycesters of Toft.
[312] Afterwards Lady Rathdonell.
[313] Thérèse de la Rochefoucauld, wife of Prince Marc-Antonio Borghese.
[314] Francesco II.
[315] Marie Thérèse Isabelle, daughter of Archduke Charles of Austria.
[316] Marie, daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria.
[317] Princess Mathilde of Bavaria.
[318] Foundress of the Order of the Precious Blood.
[319] Prince Camillo, who married a princess of Savoy-Carignan.
[320] The mystery of Madame Victorine was never cleared up. In the
summer of 1867 she suddenly expressed a wish to leave, though full of
gratitude and affection for my sister, and she implied that she need no
longer continue in service. Probably she has returned into the sphere of
life from which she evidently came. She called herself Victorine Errard.
[321] A celebrated convent in Rome, where the French nuns have a school,
which is very popular.
[322] Because it was on the day before the Crucifixion that Our Lord
said "This is my body," &c.
[323] King Francesco II., died December 1894.
[324] From "Days near Rome."
[325] From "Days near Rome."
[326] Frederick, Viscount Kilcoursie, son of the 8th Earl of Cavan.
[327] From "Days near Rome."
[328] From "Florence."
[329] Queen Emma died in 1885.
[330] Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney.
[331] All this picturesque side of Cannes has since been spoilt and
vulgarised.
[332] From "South-Eastern France."
[333] From "South-Eastern France."
[334] Afterwards Sir Antonio Panizzi.
[335] Emily, only daughter of Sir Charles Taylor of Hollycombe,
afterwards Lady Brougham and Vaux.
[336] The name of his daughter, who died in 1839.
[337] From "South-Eastern France."
[338] From "South-Eastern France."
[339] From "South-Eastern France."
[340] From "South-Eastern France."
[341] From "Biographical Essays."
[342] See vol. i. p. 359.
[343] See Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure."
[344] Mrs. Whewell.
[345] See vol. ii. p. 6.
[346] Mrs. C. Vaughan. Dr. Vaughan was now Vicar of Doncaster.
[347] Frances Vere, 2nd wife of Sir Edward Blackett of Matfen, and
daughter of Sir William Lorraine.
[348] Rev. Henry and Mrs. Liddell of Easington.
[349] _Née_ Aventina Macmurdo. See vol. ii. p. 18.
[350] Daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Dalzel. Their son, a very
distinguished young man, died before them.
[351] Mrs. Dalzel died in October 1871.
[352] Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert Adamson, Esq., and widow of
Sir Godfrey Vassall Webster, Bart.
[353] As taken down from the narration of old Mr. Frewen of Brickwall,
an intimate friend of the Webster family, who generously bought in all
their family portraits at the time of their ruin, and kept them till
they had the power of redeeming them.
[354] From "South-Eastern France."
[355] From "South-Eastern France."
[356] From "Northern Italy."
[357] From "Central Italy."
[358] Mme. Victoire Ackermann. See vol. i.
[359] Such was a constant cause of detention in early days of Italian
railways, though it seems impossible now.
[360] For the Queen Dowager, who died of the cholera at Albano in the
summer of 1867.
[361] Contessa Carolina di S. Giorgio.
[362] See vol. ii. p. 86.
[363] Of the Japanese martyrs.
[364] It is therefore not fair to say that the desecration of the Roman
churches has _only_ occurred since the Sardinian occupation.
[365] The Hon. Carolina Courtenay Boyle, maid of honour.
[366] My cousins, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and the Dowager Lady
Barrington, with her daughter Augusta, were spending the winter in Rome.
[367] This beautiful villa and its lovely grounds have been entirely
destroyed under the Sardinian Government.
[368] "Look at a pious person, man or woman, one in whom the spirit
sways the senses: look at them when they are praying or have risen from
their knees, and see with how bright a ray of divine beauty their faces
are illuminated: you will see the beauty of God shine on their faces:
you will see the beauty of an angel."--SAVONAROLA, _Sermons_.
[369] There is a passage in Rudyard Kipling which exactly describes my
mother's state at this time. "The mind was quickened, and the revolving
thoughts ground against each other, as millstones grind when there is no
corn between."
[370] From "Northern Italy."
[371] Prince Lucien, son of the Roman Prince Charles Lucien (nephew of
Napoleon I.) and of Zenaide, only child of Joseph, King of Naples and
Spain.
[372] Emma Simpkinson reached England before us, but was then rapidly
waning heavenwards. She spent the last few weeks of her life at St.
Leonards, where we had the great comfort of being able to cheer and
watch over her, and she is buried in the cemetery at Ore.
[373] Afterwards Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[374] From "Northern Italy."
[375] From "Northern Italy."
[376] Afterwards Sir Arthur Blackwood, Secretary to the Post-Office. He
died 1893.
[377] "The Saint of St. Peter's." See vol. ii. p. 429.
[378] The maid of our old friend Mrs. Chambers of Hodsock Priory.
[379] She showed her clearness of mind by mentioning this picture, which
she had not seen for years; but much trouble afterwards resulted from
this clause in her will.
[380] Letter of Mrs. Fitz-Gerald, which would have been used at
Guildford had the trial proceeded.
[381] Statement of Pierina to Miss Stanley.
[382] Statement made by Pierina to Monsignor Paterson, and repeated by
him before the trial to Miss Stanley and my solicitor.
[383] Mrs. Alfred Montgomery died at Naples in January 1893.
[384] It was touching to us, and like Esmeralda's forethought, to find a
clause in the will stating that in case of her former maid, Clémence,
dying first, the annuity should be continued to her crippled helpless
mother-in-law (whom Esmeralda had never seen), in order that Clémence
might die without any burden on her mind.
[385] Every precaution had been taken by Esmeralda to prevent her
fortune from falling to her brother Francis. In case of my dying
unmarried, everything was to go to her cousin Charles Williamson; and in
case of his death without children, to his brother Victor Williamson.
[386] At this point the agitation of Mary Stanley, who had been my
informant, was so great, that she startled the court by something like a
shout of denial.
[387] As Flora Ackermann, Madame Limosin had been brought up in my
father's family, and, with her sister Victoria, had been treated like
his own children.
[388] Now (1895) every one who took part in the trial at Guildford is
dead, except the priests, and, I believe, the Abbess Pierina. The person
whom Francis Hare had married during the last months of his life
vanished, immediately after his death, into the chaos from whence she
had come.
[389] From "South-Eastern France."
[390] From "South-Western France."
[391] From "The Story of Two Noble Lives."
[392] Lady Anne Barnard died in 1825.
[393] Her son-in-law, Mr. Hodgson Hinde.
[394] Mariage.
[395] I never saw Mrs. Arnold again: she died in the autumn of 1873.
[396] In the following year a siege by the Germans made Toul a familiar
name throughout Europe.
[397] From "North-Eastern France."
[398] From "North-Eastern France."
[399] I little foresaw then the immense service these notes would be to
me in writing the Life of Baroness Bunsen herself eight years after.
[400] From "Northern Italy."
[401] The approach to Mantua has since been altered, and is now
commonplace.
[402] From "Northern Italy."
[403] From "Northern Italy."
[404] From "Northern Italy."
[405] From "Central Italy."
[406] From "Central Italy."
[407] The Spina has since been rebuilt and spoilt by the Sardinian
Government.
[408] The great dikes of the Arno had burst a long way off, so that the
flood came upon us from behind. Only the eastern bank of the Arno was
flooded.
[409] Monckton Milnes.
[410] Eldest son of Colonel Augustus Liddell and grandson of my
great-aunt Lady Ravensworth.
[411] From "Days near Rome."
[412] William Story, the sculptor and poet.
[413] Miss Mary Boyle, celebrated for her dramatic powers.
[414] The sculptress.
[415] Afterwards Ambassador at Berlin.
[416] From "Days near Rome."
[417] From "Days near Rome."
[418] From "Florence."
[419] From "Northern Italy."
[420] Now at Holmhurst.
[421] From "South-Eastern France."
[422] From "South-Eastern France."
[423] The well-known and admirable American actress.
[424] In April 1880.
[425] Diderot, "Sarrasins."
[426] Eldest sister of my old Harrow master, and of Emma Simpkinson,
often mentioned in these Memoirs. In my childhood she lived at
Hurstmonceaux.
[427] "When the thoughts of youth return, fresh as the scent of
new-gathered blossoms, to the tired old age which has so long forgotten
them, the coming of Death is seldom very distant."--OUIDA, "_In
Maremma_."
[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.
[438] A neighbour and the wife of an old college friend.
[439] Rector of Ashburnham.
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