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Now; all is changed in that quarter by the death of PeelLady A was deeply attached to him-she is off into the country again to escape parties; came here on her way, all in tears, and asked Mr C to come by himself this week-as one asks the Clergyman when one is in affliction! -indeed this death has produced a greater dismay than any public event of my time. Not only among his own set but crowds of working people pressed round his house all the time of his illness demanding news which a Constable lifted above their heads tried to make
I have seen little of Geraldine-she comes pretty often but has always engagements to hurry her away-She has sworn friendship with Fanny Lewald the GermanAuthoress [a German 'George Sand'] who is also lionizing in London at present-and gives me much of her semi-articulate company-I also met Jane Eyre (Miss Bronte) one night at Thackeays a less figure than Geraldine and extremely unimpressive to look at-...
