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occupying the Opposition benches; but with two exceptions they mustered their entire strength in favor of the measure, which was defeated by fifty-six majority.
In spite of all the labor and excitement, Mr. Garrison gained perceptibly in health during his stay in London.
Besides the friends already named, he met many others with whom he enjoyed a renewal of intercourse—among them, Henry Vincent, Madame Emilie Ashurst Venturi, Mrs. Priscilla Bright McLaren, Mrs. Fawcett, Miss Helen Taylor, Thomas Hughes, Professor James Bryce, Justin McCarthy, and George J. Holyoake.
But he was glad at last to leave the great metropolis for the rural quiet and beauty of Somersetshire, whither he now went to visit Mr. Bright's daughter, Mrs. Helen Bright Clark, and her husband.
With them he spent a delightful Sunday in1 their home at Street, near Glastonbury and its ruined2 Abbey.
Thence he drove with them by way of Wells3 (whose cathedral, with its Bishop's Garden and ancient moat and wall, he greatly admired) and Cheddar to Sidcot, where he enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. Margaret A. Tanner, a staunch supporter of Mrs. Butler, in her beautiful home overlooking the Bristol Channel and Welsh hills.
In Bristol he was to have been the guest of the well-known philanthropist, Miss Mary Carpenter, but her letter making the arrangements for his coming had reached4 him at Oxford simultaneously with the public5 announcement of her sudden death the very night after she had written to him. His two days in that neighborhood were6 spent at Clifton with Miss Mary A. Estlin,7 who was unwearied in her attentions to him and his companion.
With her they visited Tintern Abbey and the lovely valley8 of the Wye, which they saw under peculiarly favorable conditions of weather and sky. At Evesham, where they spent a night under the hospitable roof of Mr. Herbert9
2 July 1.
3 July 2.
4 June 14.
5 June 16.
6 July 3-5.
7 The daughter of his old friend, Dr. J. B. Estlin, and one of the most steadfast of the English supporters of the American abolitionists. Miss Estlin had visited the United States in 1868, in company with Richard D. Webb and his daughter.
8 July 5.
9 July 5.
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