ks it will be a place of importance during
the approaching discussions on the East Indian monopoly.

"If he gets a sufficient salary, Hannah and I shall most likely live
with him. Can I possibly look forward to anything happier? I cannot
imagine a course of life that would suit him better than thus to enjoy
the pleasures of domestic life without its restraints; with sufficient
business, but not, I hope, too much.

"At one o'clock he came. I went out to meet him. 'I have nothing to
tell you. Nothing. Lord Grey sent for me to speak about a matter of
importance, which must be strictly private.'

"November 27.--I am just returned from a long walk, during which the
conversation turned entirely on one subject. After a little previous
talk about a certain great personage, [The personage was Lord Brougham,
who at this time was too formidable for the poor girl to venture to
write his name at length even in a private journal.] I asked Tom when
the present coolness between them began. He said: 'Nothing could exceed
my respect and admiration for him in early days. I saw at that time
private letters in which he spoke highly of my articles, and of me as
the most rising man of the time. After a while, however, I began to
remark that he became extremely cold to me, hardly ever spoke to me on
circuit, and treated me with marked slight. If I were talking to a man,
if he wished to speak to him on politics or anything else that was not
in any sense a private matter, he always drew him away from me instead
of addressing us both. When my article on Hallam came out, he complained
to Jeffrey that I took up too much of the Review; and, when my first
article on Mill appeared, he foamed with rage, and was very angry with
Jeffrey for having printed it.'

"'But,' said I,' the Mills are friends of his, and he naturally did not
like them to be attacked.'

"'On the contrary,' said Tom, 'he had attacked them fiercely himself;
but he thought I had made a hit, and was angry accordingly. When a
friend of mine defended my articles to him, he said: "I know nothing of
the articles. I have not read Macaulay's articles." What can be imagined
more absurd than his keeping up an angry correspondence with Jeffrey
about articles he has never read? Well, the next thing was that Jeffrey,
who was about to give up the editorship, asked me if I would take it. I
said that I would gladly do so, if they would remove the headquarters of
the Review to London. Jeffrey wr