Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—AMELY BOLTE, 1843-49 303to noble aims, it is a labour which a little considerationof the laws of nature might have spared one.All the trouble you take for an unhelpable person isso much out of the pocketof some other who couldhave been helped.But you have heard enough ofPiggy for the present I should think—Iadd that I have taken upon me toshall merelysend those lettersof hers to Lady Ashburton (desiring to have themback) that she might see how little the correspondencewas of your seeking—and how detestably the girlhad behaved to you. Her guardians talked much oftheir determination to put an end to your ' interference' with her. I said the girl had done thatherself I should suppose, when she carried your letterto Capt. E. and declared she would * order you towrite to her (!) no more in such a foolish strain 'that if you found her worth interfering with after thatyou must be fit for Bedlam !Capt. E. was going to write to you, they saidwhoever writes to you and whatever they say : Iadvise you to hold your peace altogether, if permissible— if you must answer something, to makeyour words as few and cold and impassible as youcan.I did something after your energetic fashion lastnight ; Miss Heerman came to me at seven, to say shemust decide about the othersituation to-day—I likedher appearance and manner very much, and so didMr. Caflyle. So rather than let her slip thro' their