Everything else that has happened only made me more determined to overcome all difficulties; but after this sad stroke I feel crushed and void of strength.

Only three short months of her society, after four years separation! I married her for love, and the longer I lived with her I loved her the more.

A good wife, and a good, brave, kindhearted mother was she, deserving all the praises you bestowed upon her at our parting dinner, for teaching her own and the native children, too, at Kolobeng.

I try to bow to the blow as from our Heavenly Father, who orders all things for us....

I shall do my duty still, but it is with a darkened horizon that I again set about it." Sir Samuel Romilly left behind him, in his Autobiography, a touching picture of his wife, to whom he attributed no small measure of the success and happiness that accompanied him through life.