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[ Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]
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[ Burton's A.N., Suppl., ii., 61. Lib. Ed. ix., p. 286, note.]
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[ Thus, Balzac, tried to discover perpetual motion, proposed to grow pineapples which were to yield enormous profits, and to make opium the staple of Corsica, and he studied mathematical calculations in order to break the banks at Baden-Baden.]
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[ We are telling the tale much as Mrs. Burton told it, but we warn the reader that it was one of Mrs. Burton's characteristics to be particularly hard on her own sex and also that she was given to embroidering.]
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[ Preface to Midian Revisited, xxxiv.]