He was one of your patriots, and the Government to
quiet him sent him out to China. When he got there he went to war with
a third of the human race! He, the patriot, he who believed in the
greatest-happiness principle, immediately went to war with a third of
the human race!" (Great laughter from T.C.) "And so far as I can make
out he was all wrong.
"The Frederick is being translated into German. It is being done by a
man whose name I have forgotten, but it was begun by one of the most
faithful friends I ever had, Neuberg. I could not work in the rooms in
the offices where lay the State papers I wanted to use, it brought on
such a headache, but Neuberg went there, and for six months worked all
day copying. He was taken ill, and a surgical operation was badly
performed, and then in that wild, black weather at the beginning of last
year, just after I came back from Mentone, the news came to me one night
he was dead."
On leaving Carlyle shook hands with us both and said he was glad to have
seen us. "It was pleasant to have friends coming out of the dark in
this way.
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