occurred at Hawarden just a week ago. It had been expected for several days, so nearly all the members of her family were present when the revered lady breathed her last. She was in her 89th year, and had enjoyed more than sixty years of married life which she was wont to des-cribo as "one long honeymoon." Like her husband, she was an indefatigable letter writer, and her correspondence is said to include many letters of extraordinary in. terest; some of these will doubtless be made public if her life is ever written, as it probably will be in the near future. As had been previously arranged, she was buried beside her illustrious husband in Westminster Abbey. The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends of the deceased lady, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Arthur Balfour, and Lord Rosebery being seated side by side. Crowds assembled in the streets outside, and through the afternoon the Abbey was visited by hundreds of people, many of whom were undoubtedly actuated by a desire to pay a last tribute to one who, in her day, had played a great part, and had been—what all women should be—a true help-lect to the man she loved.
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