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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.30 (search)
t, dear; go to bed, darling. As four o'clock sounded from Big Ben, Stanley opened his eyes and said, What is that? I told him it was four o'clock striking. Four o'clock? he repeated slowly; how strange! So that is Time! Strange! A little later, seeing that he was sinking, I brought stimulant to his lips, but he put up his hand gently, and repelled the cup, saying, Enough. Then, as six o'clock rang out, Stanley left me, and was admitted into the nearer Presence of God. On Tuesday, May 17th, Stanley's body was carried to Westminster Abbey. The coffin lay before the altar where we were married, and the Funeral Service was read, after which Henry Morton Stanley, that man of men, was buried in the village churchyard of Pirbright, Surrey. But history will remember that it was the Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster, who refused to allow Stanley to be buried in Westminster Abbey! Now, however, I am able to quote Sir George Grey's words, and say:-- I a