To Mrs.Unwin he was from the first strongly drawn.

"I met Mrs.Unwin in the street," he says, "and went home with her.

She and I walked together near two hours in the garden, and had a conversation which did me more good than I should have received from an audience with the first prince in Europe.

That woman is a blessing to me, and I never see her without being the better for her company." Mrs.Unwin's character is written in her portrait with its prim but pleasant features; a Puritan and a precisian she was, but she was not morose or sour, and she had a boundless capacity for affection.

Lady Hesketh, a woman of the world, and a good judge in every respect, says of her at a later period, when she had passed with Cowper through many sad and trying years: "She is very far from grave; on the contrary, she is cheerful and gay, and laughs _de bon coeur_ upon the smallest provocation.