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departed this Life
on the 9th December, 1831, Aged
76.
_She did not long survive her beloved Companion LADY ELEANOR
BUTLER_, _with whom she had lived in this valley for more than half
a century of uninterrupted friendship_. "_But they shall no more return
to their House_, _neither shall their place know them any more_."
_Job_, _Chap._ 7. _v._ 10.
_Reader pause for a moment and reflect not on the uncertainty of
human life but upon the certainty of its termination_, _and take comfort
from the assurance that_ "_As it is appointed unto men once to die_,
_but after this the judgment_: _so Christ was once offered to bear the
sins of many_; _and unto them that look for Him_, _shall He appear the
second time without sin unto salvation_." _Heb._ _Chap._ 9. _v._ 27,

28.
On the same tombstone is also the following inscription, to the memory
of a faithful servant, who accompanied "the Ladies" from Ireland, the
country of their nativity.
In Memory of
MRS. MARY CARRYL,
_Deceased 22 November_, 1809.

This Monument is erected by Eleanor
Butler and Sarah
Ponsonby of Plas Newydd in this
Parish.
_Released from Earth and all its transient woes_,
_She whose
remains beneath this Stone repose_,
_Steadfast in faith resigned her
parting breath_,
_Looked up with Christian joy and smiled in death_.

_Patient_, _Industrious_, _Faithful_, _Generous_, _Kind_, _Her
Conduct left the proudest far behind_;_
Her Virtues dignified her
humble birth_,
_And raised her mind above this sordid earth_.

_Attachment_ (_Sacred bond of grateful breasts_)_
Extinguished but
with life_, _this Tomb attests_,
_Reared by Two Friends who will her
loss bemoan_,
_Till with her ashes_--_Here shall rest their own_.
In 1832, the home of "the Ladies of Llangollen" was sold by auction,
by the late renowned "knight of the hammer," Mr. George Robins, who
put forth the following advertisement, in his characteristic style of
decorative description.
"IN NORTH WALES.
* * * * *
Particulars and Conditions of
Sale
OF THE
LADY ELEANOR BUTLER AND MISS
PONSONBY'S
LITTLE PARADISE
AT LLANGOLLEN,
Of which a more enlarged description

will appear