Chapter 45

[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]NéeAventina 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 hasonlyoccurred 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.

[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]NéeAventina 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 hasonlyoccurred 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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