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nestly did she pray, that the life He had preserved might be spent in His service, and in the service of her fellow creatures! And it was so spent; I am certain that it was, though I, alas! had no longer the benefit of beholding her example: for, before she recovered, my Lord and Lady had set off for England, and had reached their seat in Yorkshire, to which I was ordered to follow them by the stagecoach.
I was much agitated at the thoughts of leaving the castle, though I expected to return to it with my lady in the following summer. But it had been my little world, and I was a stranger to all without its walls: and, where I was going, I should have no kind Miss Osburne to direct and counsel me; no one who cared for me as Jackson did; or the old house-keeper, for whom I regularly knit a pair or two of lamb's wool stockings every year as long as she lived. I went away loaded with keepsakes from her, and from Jackson, and indeed from
