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governor of Bombay, whose beautiful hymns have rendered him familiar in America.
The favorite one, commencing
When gathering clouds around I view,was from his pen. The historian Hallam was also present, and I think it very likely there may have been other celebrities whom I did not know. I am always finding out, a day or two after, that I have been with somebody very remarkable and did not know it at the time.
Under date of May 18th she writes to her sister Mary:--
Dear M.,--I can compare the embarrassment of our London life, with its multiplied solicitations and infinite stimulants to curiosity and desire, only to that annual perplexity which used to beset us in our childhood on Thanksgiving Day. Like Miss Edgeworth's philosophic little Frank, we are obliged to make out a list of what man must want, and of what he may want; and in our list of the former we set down, in large and decisive characters, one quiet day for the exploration and enjoyment of Windsor.
The ride was done all too soon.
About eleven o'clock we found ourselves going up the old stone steps to the castle.
We went first through the state apartments.
The principal thing that interested me was the ball-room, which was a perfect gallery of Vandyke's paintings.
After leaving the ball-room we filed off to the proper quarter to show our orders for the private rooms.
The state apartments, which we had been looking
