Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

302 LETTEES OF JANE WELSH CAKLYLE TOwoman in the world is no news to me ! I did notmean to have told you anything of all this till I coulddo it viva voce, but having to write at any rate I mayas well put you on your guard, and advise you togive over meddling in what you cannot mend.Ever yours affectionately,Jane Carlyle.All you say to Figgy out of mistaken compassionis repeated to Henning and Capt. Eobinson &c. andyou are made to look a sort of Demon lying in waitfor her soul. So pray be quiet if you can.5 Cheyne Eow : Aug. 14, 1849.My poor little woman !—I can quite understandyour intention ' to scream '—I have the same feelingmyself very often—a notion to scream for four andtwenty hours without stopping !— not over thetreachery of one good for nothing Figgy but over thetreachery of the species generally—and indeed overwhat Mr. Carlyle calls * the whole infernal caudle ofthings ' ! What I object to you is not so much whatI call your indiscretion as a certain heedlessness ofjudgement—thro' which you fly athelping everybodyin every difficulty without having first satisfiedyourselfthat the difficulty is soluble, or the person capableof having it solved—for you know the proverb, * oneman may take a horse to the water but twenty cannotmake it drink.' And where one tries to lead a girlwithout truth or affection like Figgy by noble ways