Mr. Constable, mentioned in the letter, was an acquaintance of the sculptor, a gentleman of considerable ability in art and poetry. The conviviality, which Branwell did not consider altogether a dereliction of moral duty, led him to make his quiet and humorous allusion to Father Matthew.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
LONDON: PRINTED BY DUNCAN MACDONALD, BLENHEIM HOUSE.
Footnotes
[ [1] 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap. ii.
[ [2] 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap. iii.
[ [3] 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap. iii.
[ [4] Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap. iii, 1st edition.
[ [5] 'Charlotte Brontë, a Monograph,' pp. 20, 21, 22.