![]() In her judgments of the characters and acts of both friends and strangers, there was always room for charity, and this charity never failed. Her intuitions almost never deceived her. Her judgments of people and things were sure and accurate. Perfect truth, perfect honesty, perfect candor, were qualities of her character which were born with her. She was always frail in body, and she lived upon her spirit, whose hopefulness and courage were indestructible. Under a grave] and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection. She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. She was slender and beautiful and girlish-and she was both girl and woman. ![]() I saw her in the flesh for the first time in New York in the following December. ![]() Background "I saw her first in the form of an ivory miniature in her brother Charley's stateroom in the steamer "Quaker City," in the Bay of Smyrna, in the summer of 1867, when she was in her twenty-second year. ![]()
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