She had just that touch of idealism in her character that made for faith and hope.

In any case never more was Borrow to suffer penury, or to be a burden on his mother.

Henceforth she was to be his devoted care to her dying day.
FOOTNOTES: [92] Keep not standing, fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart, are still at home.
In each land the sun does visit; We are gay whate'er betide.
To give room for wandering is it, That the world was made so wide.
-- Carlyle's translation.
[93] Through the will of his stepdaughter, Henrietta MacOubrey.
[94] Although the Bible Society then as now purchased all the sheets of its Bibles from the three authorised sources of production--the King's printers who hold a patent, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which hold licences to print--these exclusive privileges being granted in order that the text of the Bible should be maintained with accuracy.
[95] Let me here acknowledge with gratitude my indebtedness to that fine work _The History of the British Foreign Bible Society_ (1904-10, Murray), by William Canton, which is worthy of the accomplished author of _The Invisible Playmate_.

An earlier history of the Society, by the Rev.George Browne, published in 1859, has necessarily been superseded by Mr.Canton's book.
[96] Canton's _History of the Bible Society_, vol.i.

195.
[97] _Ibid._, vol.ii.