Pauline,by pride
Angels have fallen ere thy time: by pride——
You have made a passage farther on stand:
Then did I seek to rise
Out of my mean estate. Thy bright image, etc.
I must stipulate for your restoring it thus:
Then did I seek to rise
Out of the prison of my mean estate;
And, with such jewels as the exploring mind
Brings from the caves of knowledge, buy my ransom
From those twin jailers of the daring heart—
Low birth and iron fortune. Thy bright image, etc. etc.
The last figure has been again and again quoted; is identified with the play; is fine in itself; and above all, I know that Lytton would not let it go. In writing to him to-day, fully explaining the changes in detail, and saying that I disapprove of nothing else, I have told him that I notice this change and that I immediately let you know that it must not be made.
(There will not be a man in the house from any newspaper who would not detect mutilations in that speech, moreover.)
Ever.
Miss Hogarth.
Monday, Sept. 30th, 1867.