ham Hall. She had, with the tenacity of desire peculiar to invalids, longed intensely to behold again the scenes amid which her youth was spent, and to welcome once more those familiar faces yet left in the old home. While there, she was several times drawn to the meeting at Norwich, and even spoke, on different occasions, with her wonted fire and persuasiveness. It seemed as if her powerful memory were revived, seeing that the stores of Scripture which she had made hers, were now drawn upon with singular aptness and felicity. After paying one or two farewell visits to North Repps, and Runcton, she returned once more to Upton Lane. Once settled there, she received many marks of sympathy from the excellent of all denominations, as well as from the noble and rich. The Duchess of Sutherland and her daughters, the Chevalier de Bunsen, and others who had heard of or known her, called upon her with every token of respectful affection; while, on her part, she spoke and acted as if in the very light of Eternity. So anxious, indeed, was she still to do what she conceived to be her Master's work, that she made prodigious efforts to attend meetings connected with the Society of Friends, and with her own special prison-work. Thus, she was present at two of the Yearly Meetings for Friends in London, in May, and on June 3rd, attended the Annual Meeting at the British Ladies' Society. This meeting was removed from the usual place at Westminster, to the Friends' meeting-house at Plaistow, in deference to Mrs. Fry's infirm health and visibly-declining strength. In a report issued by this Society, some four or five weeks after Mrs. Fry's death, the Committee paid a lilting tribute to her labours with them, and the sacred pre-eminence she had won in the course of those
