you myself as soon as possible that i continue to get better i will not boast of my handwriting neither that nor my face have yet recovered their proper beauty but in other respects i gain strength very fast i am now out of bed from nine in the morning to ten at night upon the sofa it is true but i eat my meals with aunt in a rational way and can employ myself and walk from one room to another mr says he will cure me and if he fails i shall draw up a memorial and lay it before the dean and chapter and have no doubt of from that pious learned and disinterested body our lodgings are very comfortable we have a neat little drawing room with a bow window overlooking dr s garden thanks to the kindness of your father and mother in sending me their carriage my journey hither on saturday was performed with very little fatigue and had it been it was the corner house in college street at the entrance to i a of jane a fine day i think i should have felt none but it distressed me to see uncle henry and wm knight who kindly attended us on horseback riding in the rain almost the whole way we expect a visit from them to morrow and hope they will stay the night and on thursday which is a con and a holiday we are to get charles out to breakfast we have had but one visit from him poor fellow as he is in sick room but he hopes to be out to night we see mrs every day and william is to call upon us soon god bless you my dear e if ever you are ill may you be as tenderly nursed as i have been may the same blessed of anxious friends be yours and may you possess as i dare say you will the greatest blessing of all in the consciousness of not being unworthy of their love i could not feel this your very aunt j a the following extract from a letter which has been before printed written soon after the former breathes the same spirit of humility and � i will only say further that my dearest sister my tender watchful nurse has not been made ill by her exertions as to what i owe her and the anxious affection of all my beloved family on this occasion i can only cry over it and pray god to bless them more and more throughout her illness she was nursed by her sister often assisted by her sister in law my mother both were with her when she died two of her a of jane brothers who were lived to to be in frequent attendance and to administer the services suitable for a death bed while she used the language of hope to her she was fully aware of her danger though not appalled by it it is true that there was much to attach her to life she was happy in her family she was just beginning to feel confidence in her own success and no doubt the exercise of her great talents was an enjoyment in itself we may well believe that she would gladly have lived longer but she was enabled without dismay of complaint to prepare for death she was a humble believing christian her life had been passed in the performance of home duties and the cultivation of domestic without any self seeking or craving after applause she had always sought as it were by instinct to promote the happiness of all who came within her influence and doubtless she had her reward in the peace of mind which was granted her in her last days her sweetness of temper never failed she was ever considerate and grateful to those who attended on her at times when she felt rather better her of spirit revived and she amused then even in their sadness once when she thought herself near her end she said what she imagined might be her last words to those around her particularly thanked her sister in law for being with h r saying you have always been a kind sister to me mary when the end at last came she sank rapidly and on being asked by her attendants whether there was anything that she north aisle of cathedral a of jane wanted her reply was nothing hut death these were her last words in and peace she breathed her last on the morning of july on the th of that month she was buried in cathedral near the centre of the north aisle almost opposite to the beautiful tomb of william of a large of in tlie pavement marks the place own only attended the funeral her sister returned to her home there to devote herself for ten years to i e care of her aged mother and to live much on the memory of her lost sister till called many years later to her her brothers went to their they were very fond and very proud of her they were attached to her by her talents her virtues and her engaging manners and afterwards to fancy a resemblance in some niece or daughter of his own to the dear sister jane whose perfect equal they yet never expected to see inscription on jane s tomb � jane to mat t bt � in to bt the charms of bt faith and was at in the county of and in this cathedral july xxiv she her witb wisdom and in her tongue b the of � t xxvi s a of chapter xl the chapter chap x of persuasion with all this knowledge of mr and this authority to impart it anne left buildings her mind deeply busy in revolving what she had heard feeling thinking recalling and everything shocked at mr sighing 