"
"Extremely kind of you to say so, Mrs. Midleton."
Mrs. Cobb also called. "I'll just let her see," said Mrs. Cobb to
herself; and she put on a gown which Mrs. Midleton as Mrs. Fairfax had
made for her.
"You'll remember this gown, Mrs. Midleton?"
"Perfectly well. It is not quite a fit on the shoulders. If you will
let me have it back again it will give me great pleasure to alter it for
you."
By degrees, however, Mrs. Midleton came to be loved by many people in
Langborough. Mr. Sweeting not long afterwards died in debt, and Mrs.
Sweeting, the old housekeeper being also dead, was taken into the
rectory as her successor, and became Mrs. Midleton's trusted friend.
Footnotes:
{10} Since 1868 the Reminiscences and his Life have been published
which put this estimate of him beyond all doubt. It is much to be
regretted that a certain theory, a certain irresistible tendency to
arrange facts so as to prove preconceived notions, a tendency more
dangerous and unhistorical even than direct suppression of the truth or
invention of what is not true, should have ruined Carlyle's biography.
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