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FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE
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FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF VICTORIAN LIFE
BY THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF JERSEY
LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1922
DEDICATED TO MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
“What is this child of man that can conquer Time and that is braver than Love? Even Memory.” Lord Dunsany.
Though “a Sorrow’s Crown of Sorrow” Be “remembering happier things,” Present joy will shine the brighter If our morn a radiance flings. We perchance may thwart the future If we will not look before, And upon a past which pains us We may fasten Memory’s door. But we will not, cannot, banish Bygone pleasure from our side, Nor will doubt, beyond the storm-cloud, Shall be Light at Eventide. M. E. J.