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1 have assured her a respectable, if not a hand- 

 some income, bad her voice been tod, an it waa 



appear to have shared her sentiments. It is very 

 Her brother William best and dearest 

 of brothers" roust have thought otherwise, when ! 

 allowed her mimic lessons to be hindered by marketing, 

 incompetent servants, ai 1 1 tiles. 



himself of his struggles 



in Bath and afterwards, if leas racy, is cert 

 more wonderful. Encouragement he seems to have 

 had from no one, not even from Caroline, who sub- 

 -iiinil.lin^, to his whims or 

 caprice. 



WIIM pursuing h s with a devotion w! 



to one who reads the papers he afterwards wrote, calls 

 to mind the . he patriarch in pursuit of his 



mistress's love. day the drought consumed 



me, and the fro- _jht; and my sleep departed 



from mine eyes." Most lit* rally true was this as a 

 rt of the astron labours at Bath 



t telescope is covered with i< 



il iiti\ nun ni^ht. A month la' 



writes, "It freezes very hanl. an. I th.- sUre are 



x. M Two we read, 



M Not freezes upon th.- -Me of the tube, 



hut i in once have 1 fonml my tVet fastened to 



the groun.l v. ive looked long at the same star." 



On removing to Windsor, there was no falling away in 



i >us mistress. i r o'clock 



in the morning/' he writes on New Year's Day 1783, 



" my ink was frozen in the room ; and, about five o'clock, 



nty-feet speculum, in th.- tube, went off with a 



