If Carlyle had indigestion, he broke into picturesque rhetoric about the hag which was riding him no-whither.

A far characteristic passage than his mother's "gey to deal wi'" is his own simple confession to his father, "When I shout murder, I am not always being killed."+ -- * Life, i.

302.
+ Life, i.

209.
-- That Froude's ideas of a biographer's duty were the same as his own Carlyle had good reason to know.

Froude had stated them plainly enough in Fraser's Magazine, which Carlyle always saw, for June, 1876.