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13 JUNE 1849 ; Days like these

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070613
Author:REBECCA ARMSTRONG

CAROLINE FOX, the English diarist, writes in her diary: "Steamed to Chelsea, and paid Mrs Carlyle ( above) [Jane, wife of Scottish essayist, Thomas Carlyle] a humane little visit. She talked in rather a melancholy way of herself and life in general, professing that it was only the faith that all things are well put together that prevents one sending out to the nearest chemist's shop for sixpenny worth of arsenic; but now one just endures it while it lasts. We said a few modest words in honour of existence, which she answered by, 'But I can't enjoy Joy, as Henry Taylor says. He, however, cured ...

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