the invisible sufferer through the partition thus: “For God’s sake,
woman, be articulate. If anything can be done for you, be it even to
ride ten miles in the dark for a doctor, tell me, and I’ll do it; if
not, endeavour to compose yourself.” There ensued a dead silence, and he
was troubled no more.
The Edinburgh University records show that “Charles Buller, Cornwall,”
matriculated again for the session 1822–3 (one of the very earliest
students to matriculate that year, for he stands as No. 8 in a total of
2071 matriculations), and that he attended the 2nd Latin class, under
Professor James Pillans, who had succeeded Christison as Humanity
Professor in 1820. A later name in the matriculation list (No. 836) is
that of “Arthur Buller,” who had not attended the University with his
brother in the previous year, but now joined him in the 2nd Latin class,
and also took out Dunbar’s 2nd Greek class. In the same matriculation
list of 1823–3 (No. 21), as entering the University for the first time,
and attending Pillans’s 2nd Latin class with the two Bullers, appears
“John Carlyle, Dumfriesshire.” This was Carlyle’s younger brother, the
future Dr. John Carlyle, translator of Dante, and the only other of the
family who received a University education. He had been for some time a
teacher in Annan School, in succession to his brother; and, as he was to
choose the medical profession, his present attendance in the Arts
classes was but preliminary to attendance in the medical classes in the
sessions immediately to follow. He lodged, as the _Reminiscences_ tell
us, with his brother, in the rooms in Moray Street, Pilrig Street.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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