CHAP, vi.] Her Grave. Paganini. 247 



.... I have laid apart for every possible expense which 

 can occur at my exit. Six years ago I had a vault built in 

 the spot where my parents rest. The ground is mine 

 auf ewig (for ever). 



You have made me completely happy for some time with 

 the account you sent me of the double stars ; but it vexes 

 me more and more that in this abominable city there is no 

 one who is capable of partaking hi the joy I feel on this 

 revival of your father's name. His observations on double 

 stars were from first to last the most interesting subject ; he 

 never lost sight of it in his papers on the construction of 

 the heavens, &c. And I cannot help lamenting that he 

 could not take to his grave with him the satisfaction I feel 

 at present at seeing his son doing him so ample justice by 



endeavouring to perfect what he could only begin 



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TO MRS. HERSCHEL. 



HANOVER, August 11, 1831. 



.... I wish Paganini may make some stay yet in 

 England, that you, or my nephew at least, may hear him. 

 The English cannot be more frantic about him than the 

 Hanoverians were. He filled our play-house twice at 

 double price, and though some part of the orchestra had 

 been thrown into parquet, still gentlemen were scattered 

 among the lamps and squeezed in among the performers on 

 the stage. You will think me the maddest of the mad 

 when I tell you that, after spending three parts of each day 

 in pain and misery, I make one of the audience twice a 

 week, if possibly I can hold up my head ; for then I am lulled 

 into forgetfulness of my severed situation from all what was 

 or is still dear to me, and amuse myself sometimes with 

 having my vanity tickled by the notice which is taken of my 

 being or not being present. In The Sun of July 13 is a 



