ITORS AT SLOl 



AW and dreaded from the fint M I know bow 



hed and feveriab one feela after two or three 

 Caroline writes of her own all-night 

 With a woman's quickness for those she lores, 

 she sometimes managed toshi< M h< r brother, wearied, 

 like her, with an all -ni-)r from these thought- 



lean caller*. " In my way into the garden," she writes, 

 as far back as 1797, "I was met and detained by 

 Lord S. and another gentleman, who came to see my 



r and his telescopes. By way of preventing too 

 long an interruption, I told the gentlemen that I had 

 just found a comet, and wanted to settle its place. I 

 pointed it out to them, and after having seen it they 

 took their leave." But she could not always thus act 

 the part of guardian angel. On October 4, 1806, 

 ' two parties i n >m the Castle came to see the comet," 

 observed two days before, "and during the whole 

 month my brother had not an evening to himself. 



been my opinion that on the 14th of 



October his nerves received a shock of which h- 



never got the better afterwards; for on that d. 



had hardly dismissed his troop of i 



assisting him in the laborious work of polishing the 



40- feet in itors assembled, and from the 



\vas dark till past midnight he was on the 



grass-plot surrounded by between fifty and sixty 



persons, without having had time for putting on 



prop< ng, or for the least nourishment passing 



ipa. Among the company, I remember, were the 

 Duke of Sussex, Prince Galitzin, Lord Darnl 

 in; i uber of officers, Admiral Boston, and some ladies." 



picture is outlined with a clearness nothing but 

 cling could inspire ; the strain was manifestly 



