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Excerpt from Some Account of My Life and Writings, Vol. 2 of 2: An Autobiography
Lady Matilda, his revered wife, was a person of an entirely different disposition, and yet never was a happier couple. A daughter of the Earl of Elgin, who was so well known from Lord Byron's violent tirade against him for the spoliation of the Par thenon, and lineally descended from Robert Bruce, she possessed in a remarkable degree the talents and originality of her long line of ancestors. Vvith out possessing regular beauty, her countenance was eminently pleasing, and the benignity of her disposi tion appeared in the serenity of her manner and the sweetness of her smile. She was of a very serious turn of mind, and deeply imbued with the doctrines of Edward Irving; but these peculiarities of belief did not in the slightest degree interfere with the gentleness of her disposition or with the universal charity of her feelings. She was pious without being sectarian, beneficent but not exclusive.
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