ite. Her fair, open forehead, clear expressive blue eye,
and finely shaped countenance displayed that combination
of intellect with sensibility, which marked her character.
A tall and graceful person, whose symmetry age had respected,
gave dignity to a deportment which the sorrows
of life had softened. A vein of playful humour had been
natural to her youth, and might still occasionally be detected
in her quick smile, and kindling eye. Yet this
was divested of every semblance of asperity by the spirit
of a religion, breathing love to all mankind. Her voice
had that peculiar and exquisite tone, which seems an echo
of the soul's harmony. Her brow was circled with thin
folds of the purest cambrick, whose whiteness was contrasted
with the broad, black ribband which compressed
them, and the kerchief of the same colour, pinned in quaint
and quaker-like neatness over her bosom. Her countenance
in its silence spoke the language of peace within,
good will to all around, and the sublimated joy of one.
whose "kingdom is not of this world." Her liberality
was proverbial. She loved the poor and the sick, as if
they were unfortunate members of her own family. To I
afford them relief, was not a deed of ostentation, but a
source of heartfelt delight. She considered herself as
the obliged party, when an opportunity was presented of
distributing His bounty, who by entrusting her with riches
had constituted her his almoner, and would at length re
quire an account of her stewardship. Her piety was not
a strife about doctrines, though the articles of her belief
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