![]() ![]() ![]() Gaskell, it is scarcely consonant with the best and highest feeling to draw the veil from the whole history and mystery and tragedy of a household, and exhibit it to the world. Shorter I will venture to say that much as we owe to Mrs. every secret of your loves, and griefs, and shames, every, I was going to say every rag, but that is not the right word - you had ever worn, and putting them all together to be gazed upon by a procession of tourists summer after summer? I think you would not like it, and even in the presence of Mr. ![]() Why do the memories of Charlotte and Emily Brontë survive among us with such extreme vitality ? Has it ever occurred to you to ask yourselves what the shrinking sisters would have thought of the museum hard by and of this great gathering ? What would you yourselves think if you knew that a band of enthusiasts were to be engaged after your death in ferretting out every letter you had ever written. ![]()
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