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of Opinion on the Continent. It is no wonder that 

 Popery, in its contest with mere liberalism, should have 

 the better. Bad as it is, it is not so bad as the anta- 

 gonist system of morals which the writings of Eugene 

 Sue serve both to illustrate and to spread. 



' You speak, dearest, of temperament, and the diffi- 

 culty of bearing up against it by any mere effort of the 

 will when it is adverse to small but not unimportant 

 everyday duties. I know somewhat of that difficulty from 

 experience in myself ; willing may do much, but it will 

 not change nature, or convert uphill work into downhill. 

 But I trust we shall both get on, bearing and forbearing, 

 with a solid stratum of affection at bottom. I have been 

 conscious since my late attack of an irritability of 

 temper, which is, I hope, not natural to me, and which, 

 when better health comes, will, I trust, disappear. I 

 keep it down so that it gives no external sign ; since I 

 entered England it has found no expression whatever ; 

 but I am very sensible of it, especially after passing a 

 rather sleepless night. To-day I am in a very genial 

 humour, the entire secret of which is in the excellence 

 of last night's rest, induced, I think, by the fatigue of 

 the previous day. I mention the thing merely in cor- 

 roboration of your remark ; we cannot be independent 

 of the animal part of us. I am a good boy to-day 

 because I slept well last night, but I was not so good a 

 boy a week since, for my nerves were out of order, and 

 my sleep had been bad/ 



' Dudley, Oct. 16th, 1845. 



'Fine weather at last, clear, bracing, warm, but 

 not too warm, exactly the sort of weather for getting 

 well in ; and here I am, you see, enjoying it. Had 

 such weather come six weeks ago, I would have been 

 well, I think, for the last month. When nervousness 



