Each does, however, in some
measure, supply what is deficient in the other. No one would claim
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer the intensity of power of his
successor, but in his abundant energy, his wide sympathy with popular
movement, and his real, if vague and indiscriminating, faith in the
activity and progress of modern life, he conveys lessons of trust
in the present, and hopefulness in the future, which would be
ill-exchanged for the patient and somewhat sad stoicism of Mr.
Carlyle."
Carlyle was still in Scotland on April 21, and there the terrible and
solemn news had to be conveyed to him of the sudden death of her who
had been his true and faithful life-companion for forty years.
Mrs. Carlyle died on Saturday, April 21, under very peculiar
circumstances. She was taking her usual drive in Hyde Park about four
o'clock, when her little favourite dog--which was running by the side
of the brougham--was run over by a carriage. She was greatly alarmed,
though the dog was not seriously hurt. She lifted the dog into the
carriage, and the man drove on.
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