MEMOIR OF MRS. VALENTINE. CHAPTER I. EDWARD GUSTAVUS fraser. THE subject of our memoir, HENRIETTA SMITH ISABEL VALENTINE, was born at Agra, in India, on the 2d December 1849; her father, the late well-known Judge Fraser of Lucknow, being then assistant-secretary to the Sudder Board of Revenue, under Sir William Muir. The only remaining child of her parents, she inherited from her mother, who survives her, a gentle demeanour, a warm, affectionate heart, and that thorough devotedness of feeling which they both exemplified in religious matters; at the same time she was very markedly a counterpart of her father. She resembled him not only in personal appearance, but in mind and in character, having the same "strong, logical intellect, singularly true and well-balanced judgment, unswerving rectitude, high-toned honour, repellent to everything mean, with a fear of God that regulated and sanctified all." Her father, Edward Gustavus Fraser, was in many respects a most remarkable man; so much so, that a brief account of him here will be found fully justified; this the more especially because of his being mixed up with various signal occurrences in India, and A |