text:  Seeing such things in so short a space of years for the grandmother died at thirty-two we say--Death we can face: but knowing as some of us do what is human life which of us is it that without shuddering could (if consciously we were summoned) face the hour of birth? FOOTNOTES: [19] Being constantly almost an absentee from London and very often from other great cities so as to command oftentimes no favourable opportunities for overlooking the great mass of public journals it is possible enough that other slanders of the same tenor may have existed