[2] See terminal Notes, 1. [↑]
[3] If you don’t know your Scott properly, it is of no use to give you references. [↑]
[4] “Dicimus, et stabilito tenore firmamus, amorem non posse, inter duos jugales, suas extendere vires.” [↑]
[5] He meant the Bible; having learned Evangelical views at the massacre of St. Bartholomew. [↑]
[6] For the present, the daughters seem to take the initiative. See story from Halifax in the last terminal Note. [↑]
FORS CLAVIGERA.
LETTER XXXVI.
Three years have passed since I began these letters. Of the first, and another, I forget which, a few more than a thousand have been sold; and as the result of my begging for money, I have got upwards of two hundred pounds. The number of the simple persons who have thus trusted me is stated at the end of this letter. Had I been a swindler, the British public would delightedly have given me two hundred thousand pounds instead of two hundred, of which I might have returned them, by this time, say, the quarter, in dividends; spent a hundred and fifty thousand pleasantly, myself, at the rate of fifty thousand a year; and announced, in this month’s report, with regret, the failure of my project, owing to the unprecedented state of commercial affairs induced by strikes, unions, and other illegitimate combinations among the workmen.