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She brought across the seas a high courage, a warm heart, a rich relish of life, and a hand skilled and untiring in those domestic arts that give richness and beauty and reality to daily living. In later life she travelled far, [Crossed out: and found names to to interest her in distant lands,] but her heart was here, and all her journeys brought her home. The second paragraph, "In later life etc" seems to hint at the later years of her life, which were so different from the earlier part of it, and which never changed her in the least, except to make her sounder and more reasoned than ever. But that language might well be omitted. Of course Mrs. Brodstone was lots of things not mentioned above; she was, even when I first knew her, so eminently "sound and reasoned",