Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link book Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) 29/33 All the year [NOT QUITE] she dines alone. Has Apartment on Thursdays; everybody gone at nine o'clock. Her morsels are cut for her, her steps are counted, and her words are dictated; she is miserable, and does what she can to hide it"-- according to our Small Devil. "She has scarcely the necessaries of life allowed her,"-- spends regularly two-thirds of her income in charitable objects; translates French-Calvinist Devotional Works, for benefit of the German mind; and complains to no Small Devil, of never so sympathizing nature. "At Court she is lodged on the second floor [scandalous]. |