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Title: Helena Faucit (Lady Martin)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Martin, Theodore, Sir, 1816-1909
Subjects: Martin, Helena Faucit, 1814-1898
Publisher: Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ormer visits so happy. She read Tennysons Dora and The Brook to the Queen after dinner one evening,and Mrs Brownings Lady Geraldines Courtship on another ;and she records that in a letter the Queen said very sweetthings of my reading. H.M. seems very fond of Mrs Browningspoems. Not long after our return home the following entryoccurs : March 12.—This morning came a lovely cashmere shawlto me as a present from the Queen, with a charming letter accom-panying it from the Princess Louise. Acknowledged both (noeasy task) before I went to bed. In June we went to Wales, to see the progress making withthe building and garden additions to our little property there.On our way we were greatly shocked by a placard at theWrexham Eailway Station announcing the sudden death, theprevious day (June 9), of Charles Dickens. I can neverforget, the Diary says, how kind he was to me when wemet in my very early days at Mr Macreadys, Mr S. C. Halls,and at his own house. His Christmas Carol will always seem
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1870. J OPINION ON THE BRITISH WORKMAN. 307 to me his best book. How many a hard heart it must havesoftened! He should have been a happy man with the know-ledge that he could do so much <for his kind. We were glad to escape early from the fatigues of the Londonseason, which our large circle of friends made unusually heavyfor my wife, to the banks of the Dee, in the hope that ourenlarged house would be ready to receive us. But whatbuilding operation is ever finished within the promised time^Our patience was tried beyond endurance, and our opinion ofthe working man was certainly not heightened by what we sawof the way he either made himself unfit for his work, or dawdledover it at our expense :— Oct. 18, 1870.—Oh, says the Diary, that we were away!These workmen fill me with despair. Oh, if the whole work oflife were done as the British workmans is ! We have them hereof all sorts and kinds, and the unanimity in the one great failingis as wonderful as it is depressing. What is educ

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