[27] “Poêle a frire.” I don’t quite understand the nature of this article. [28] Well said, the Viscount. People think me a grumbler; but I wholly believe this,—nay, know this. The world exists, indeed, only by the strength of its silent virtue. [29] Well said, Viscount, again! So few people know the power of the Third Fors. If I had not chanced to give lessons in drawing to Octavia Hill, I could have done nothing in Marylebone, nor she either, for a while yet, I fancy. [30] A lovely, classic, unbetterable sentence of Marmontel’s, perfect in wisdom and modesty. [31] Not for a dividend upon it, I beg you to observe, and even the capital to be repaid in work. [32] Or, worse still, as our public men do, upon the cost of non-compulsory measures! [33] These small “powers” of terminal letters in some of the words are very curious. [34] A lady high in the ranks of kindly English literature. [35] Italics mine, as usual. [36] Notes on Old Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1869. Things may possibly have mended in some respects in the last five years, but they have assuredly, in the country villages, got tenfold worse. [37] “Bernard the happy.” The Beato of Mont Oliveto; not Bernard of Clairvaux. The entire inscription is, “received St. Francis of Assisi to supper and bed”; but it I had written it so, it would have appeared that St. Francis’s ecstacy was in consequence of his getting his supper. [38] ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ July 31st, 1873. [39] “Rigurgitava”—gushed or gorged up; as a bottle which you have filled too full and too fast. [40] Sensale, an interesting Venetian word. The fair on the Feast of the Ascension at Venice became in mellifluous brevity, ‘Sensa,’ and the most ornamental of the ware purchaseable at it, therefore, Sensale. A “Holy-Thursday-Fairing,” feeling herself unwell, would be the properest translation. [41] Observe, this is only asserted of its main principles; not of minor and accessory points. I may be entirely wrong in the explanation of a text, or mistake the parish schools of St. Matthias for St. Matthew’s, over and over again. I have so large a field to work in that this cannot be helped. But none of these minor errors are of the least consequence to the business in hand. [42] See first article in the Notes and Correspondence to this number. [43] See second note at end of this letter. [44] The passage continues thus, curiously enough,—for the parallel of the boat at sea is precisely that which I have given, in true explanation of social phenomena:—