r course can
hardly be discussed here. She continued to live in Westminster, and
to be the friend of many. One friend was tacitly accepted by all
who loved her as possessing a special place and special privileges.
Encouraged and inspired by her, Arthur Welby outlived the cold and
academic manner of his later youth, and in the joy of richer powers,
and the rewards of an unstained and pure affection, he recovered much
that life seemed once to have denied him. Eugenie never married him.
In friendship, in ideas, in books, she found the pleasures of her
way. Part of her life she spent--with yearning and humility--among
the poor. But with them she never accomplished much. She was timid in
their presence, and often unwise; neither side understood the other.
Her real sphere lay in what a great Oxford preacher once enforced
at St. Mary's, as--'our duty to our equals'--the hardest of all. Her
influence, her mission, were with her own class; with the young girls
just 'out,' who instinctively loved and clung to her; with the tired
or troubled women of the world, who felt her presence as the passage
of something pure and kindling which evoked their better selves; and
with those men, in whom the intellectual life wages its difficult
war with temperament and circumstance, for whom beauty and truth are
realities, and yet--great also is Diana of the Ephesians! Thus in her
soft, glancing, woman's way, she stood with 'the helpers and friends
of mankind.' But she never knew it. In her own opinion, few persons
were so unprofitable as she; and but for her mystical belief, the
years would have brought her melancholy. They left her smile, however,
undimmed. For the mystic carries within a little flame of joy, very
hard to quench. The wind of Death itself does but stir and strengthen
it.

[Illustration: _Robin Ghyll Cottage_]

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