below, says the coachman _came_ to _see_ him, not that the lady _sent_ him; and we may justly infer--if ever he came at all--that he come on his own account, having been personally acquainted with Branwell when he was tutor at ----. But, can it be believed that, supposing Mrs. ---- to have been enamoured of Branwell, as asserted, she could find no other confidant than her 'coachman,' as a means of communicating her sorrows and lamentations to the distracted object of her devotion? There is, in this story, the inconsistency of madness. And it must be borne in mind that the other stories, relating to Branwell at the time of his tutorship at ----, which appear to have so much interested the biographers of Charlotte and Emily, have their paternity at Haworth, and are not the more trustworthy on that account. [26] Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap, xiii., 1st. edit. [27] Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap, xiii., 1st. edit. [28] Robinson's 'Emily Brontë,' p. 145. I regret to trouble the reader still further with the errors of fact, and the exaggerated statements into which Mrs. Gaskell has fallen respecting this event. She says of Mrs. ----: '_Her husband had made a will, in which what property he left her was bequeathed solely on the condition that she should never see Branwell Brontë again_.'[29] (The Italics are my own.) Mrs. Gaskell's postulations concerning this will are quite as erroneous as that she made in reference to Miss Branwell's, so far as it related to her nephew. Indeed, like her other allegations respecting this most painful epoch of Branwell's life, she derived the information on which they were based, more from hearsay than from respectable or documentary evidence. It is clear she never saw the wills about which she speaks with so much assurance. [29] Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' chap, xiii., 1st edit.