Memorials of Thomas George Tebay, M.D / [Charlotte Tebay].

Tebay, Charlotte.

Date:: 1893

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Credit: Memorials of Thomas George Tebay, M.D / [Charlotte Tebay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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pared death.” That afternoon he was intending to go to the Oratory for confession, and had prepared himself for it. He had come in tired with his morning’s work: his last visit had been one of charity to the Orphanage of St. Vincent de Paul. He said, “ I do not feel right somehow.” He took his luncheon as usual, and then rested in his easy chair. At three o’clock I went up to the drawing- room for a minute or two ; but just before, as I had stood by his chair, he had taken my hand and pressed it warmly to his heart. He must have almost followed me out of the room, for a minute or two after I heard him at the front door. I ran down, for I always helped him on with his coat, but Carrie1 had done this for me, and he was gone. Only a few minutes after the heavy tidings reached me. He had had the sudden call, but not the unpre- pared one. Of all in the crowded street God had seen that he was the only one fit to go. He lay there with closed eyes, like one asleep. Reverently he was carried back to his home—that home now for ever desolate. I have been asked to write of this solemn day, or I would not have opened these heart-wounds again. The many letters I received of sympathy in my sorrow all give the same testimony to my husband’s character. The Rev. Canon Allen, of Shrewsbury, writes: “ He was called, well prepared, if any one ever was, to lay down his life where his Divine Master deigned to take it up, by the world’s way- 1 My sister Caroline, who was then living with us.