Edward Knight's Family
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Elizabeth Austen, later Knight, continued.
'... deeply, though quietly, religious – taking for granted that Sunday church-going, Holy Communion and daily prayer were their duty to God, and would be their help through life. This religion they owed to the example of their father and mother who, though reticent on such matters, showed throughout their long lives a simple piety characteristic of their day.
Evelyn Templetown, to whom Dane Court was a second home from her earliest childhood, has left on record her impressions of her loved grandmother, placing her in the setting of her home – and this priceless account must now be given. It formed part of a paper termed "Beautiful old Ladies", which she sent to me, her cousin, and which fortunately I have preserved.
'My grandmother was the most beautiful lady I have ever seen; one whose name recalls a vision so rare and delicately sweet that one despairs of putting into words a vision that brings with it the faint perfume of cedar and sandalwood, of bergamot and summer flowers! The background is an old English home, white-walled, with steep brown-tiled roof and tall white chimneys – in front of low hills crowned with woods where bluebells and primroses made ...'
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