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* The author of A Story of Everyday Life, with his noble humanity, has been frequently aware of this, and in this novel, too, has with a few strokes intimated such a character in Mrs Lyng, the sea-captain’s widow. ‘She had gone through a great deal in life and was one of those people never adequately appreciated, in whose heart kindness and gentleness take the place of upbringing and education, whom memory of the sufferings and injustices they have undergone teaches gentility in company regardless of any outward station in life’ (p. 87).