True religion may have to cast away the symbol for the spirit before "the kingdom" can come.
'While I am speculating to little purpose, perhaps you are doing--what?
Might not a biography from your pen bring forth again some great, half- obscured soul to act on the world?
Even Sir Philip Sidney ought to be superseded by a still nobler type.
'This must go immediately, to be in time for the bearer, of whose meeting with you I shall think as the friend of both.

May it be happy! 'Your affectionate 'A.

I.N.

B.' One letter more from Lady Byron I give,--the last I received from her:-- LONDON, May 3, 1859.
DEAR FRIEND,--I have found, particularly as to yourself, that, if I did not answer from the first impulse, all had evaporated.

Your letter came by 'The Niagara,' which brought Fanny Kemble to learn the loss of her best friend, the Miss F---- whom you saw at my house.
'Her death, after an illness in which she was to the last a minister of good to others, is a soul-loss to me also; and your remarks are most appropriate to my feelings.