,
And wish thy name with hers in glory bound.
With one alone when fades the glowing West,
Beneath the moonbeam let thy spirit rest,
While childhood's silvery tones the stillness break
And all the echoes of thy heart awake.
Then wiser, holier, stronger than before,
Go, plunge into the maddening strife once more;
The dangerous, glorious path that thou hast trod,
Go, tread again, and with thy country's God.

F.R.

WOBURN ABBEY, _August_ 18, 1864

My dear, dear husband's birthday. [He was seventy-two.] I resolved
not to let sad and untrustful thoughts come in the way of gratitude
for present happiness, and oh! how thankfully I looked at him with
his children around him. They made him and me join them in a match
at trap-ball that lasted two hours and a half. He, the boys, Johnny
and Agatha rode, Mademoiselle and I drove in the same direction. He
and his cavalcade were a pleasant sight to me. He looked pleased
and proud with his three sons and his little daughter galloping
beside him. The day ended with merry games.

In September, 1864, came the news of Lord Amberley's engagement to Lord
Stanley of Alderley's daughter. He was at that time only twenty-one. Lady
Russell's feeling about it is shown in the following letter:

_Lady Russell to Lady Georgiana Russell_

NORTH BERWICK, _September_ 21, 1864

MY DEAREST GEORGY,--Your long and dear letters were a great
pleasure to me, showing how you are thinking and feeling with us
about this event, so great to us all. Whatever pangs there may be
belonging to it, and of course there are some, are lost and
swallowed up to me in great joy and gratitude. We might have wished
him to marry a little later, to have him a little longer a child of
home. But, on the other hand, there is something to me very
delightful in his marrying while heart and mind are fresh and
innocent and unworldly, and I even add inexperienced--for I am not
over-fond of experience. I think it just as often makes people less
wise as more wise. There is more real truth in their "Ideale" than
in what follows.... God bless you, dear child.

Your very loving MAMA

In July, 1865, Parliament was dissolved, the Ministry having held office
for six years. They had lost prestige over the Schleswig-Holstein
negotiations. Lord Derby, with justification, denounced