Identifier: somefamouswome00crei (find matches)
Title: Some famous women
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Creighton, Louise, 1850-1936
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Publisher: London : Longmans
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eother hand Avilh great comfort, and now I turn to thiswith greater. But as he looked towards his house,some tears Avere seen to fall from his eyes. So heremained calm and cheerful till he laid his head onthe block and all his troubles Avere over. We do not knoAv and avc can hardly bear to thinkhoAv his wife passed those terrible hours after she hadparted from him. Seven j^ears afterAvards she Avrote: There Avas something so glorious in the object of mybiggest sorroAv, I believe, that in some measure keptme from being then oA^erwhelmed. She Avas roused,only a fcAV days after Lord Russells death, to defendhis memory, since it Avas asserted that the paper Avhichhe had Avritten before his death, and Avhich had beenprinted and Avidely read, Avas not his but had beenAvritten by Dr. Burnet. She Avrote to the king de-scribing herself as a Avoman amazed Avith grief, and RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL 79 begged him to believe that he who in all his lifewas observed to act with the greatest clearness and
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sincerity, would not at the point of death do so falsea thing as to deliver for his own what was properlynot so. Still Dr. Burnet was reo^arded with such 80 SOME FAMOUS WOMEN suspicion that he thought it wise to leave the countrj^for a time. Lady Russell left London and went with her childrento Woburn, the place of the Dake of Bedford, her father-in-law. She had kind friends to help her in her sorrow.The Duke of Bedford cherished her and her childrenwith tender affection, and for long she made her homewith him. He addressed her in his letters as hisdearest daughter, and signed himself your mostaffectionate father and friend. A clergyman, Dr. Fitz-william, who had been her fathers chaplain and hadknown her from infancy, wrote often to her, and to himshe poured out her sorrow, as to one who had knownboth her and her husband and had seen their life to-gether and therefore would be patient with her whilsther disordered thoughts and her amazed mind made it difficult for her to speak of any

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