The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-16

Irving. tho Annsndaie youth whose brilliant
promise was not yet darkened by tho shadow
| Of disaster. Fresh from collegiate honors at
Edinburgh University. no had bsen sent In
1910 by two learned professors to teach school
| in Haddngton. RecogniziLg his fine quail
| ties, DR.. Welsh trusted him with the private
| education Of JEANNE as well as with the mani
| agement OF the school. More interest,"
ing master and pupil surely were SOL
| dom seen. Irving was at this time q
handsome. rudy youth. boyish stlll In spite
Of his inches. ardent and full Of hope. At all
times his personality was striking. aud In these
| early days his manner was frank aud winning
Ono cannot doubt that the subtle links OF
sympathy which bound these two natures 90
closely together In later life were forged In those
first years at HaddlnRton when the impetus
ous bright child sought knowledge from the
tall. handsome youth. and ripened her powers
under the deep interest which entered into his
teachings. One effect Of her studies OF Latin
under Irving was. as sho says In one OF her old
notebooks. to change her religion and make
her into q sort OF pagan. The classical
world" she writes. in which lived was
best indicated In the tragedy OF my doll. 1t had
been intlmated to mo by ono whose wishes
were law doubtless Irvingl that young lady
In Virgil should. for consistency's sake.
drop her dolls. So the doll being judged must
be made an end OF: and I. doing what would
with my own like the Duke Of Newcastle.
quickly decided how: she should end as Dido
ended that doll-as the doll OF young lady In
Virgil should end. With her dresses. which
vera many and sumbtuous. her four-posted
bed. n iugot or two Il cedar alumsttes, a few
sticks Of cinnamon. and anutmeg. ]. non.icndra
Juturi. constructed her funeral pyre-sub anras.
OF course and this now Dido being placed in
st,> a. h.1,, Ia
tho sal.!last words of Dido the First. which
Ind then all BY heart. The dol having
thus spoken. paliidh morte Juhua. kndled tho
rile aud stabbed herself with . penknie ~
way OF Il Tyrian sword. Then. however. in the
moment OF seeinE my poor doll llaze up-for
being stuffed with bran she took flro and was
all over IL no tmo-in that supreme moment
my affection for her blrzcd np also. and /
shriekcd AMI would have saved her. and could
not. and went ON shrieking till everybody
within hearing few to mo aud bore mo ofl in n
plunge OF tesrs-an enitome Of most OF ones
heroic sacriticcs 1t strikes me. maEnan-
mously resolved on. os;sntatiously gone about.
rcpcnted Of at the last moment. and bewailed
with IN outcry."
1t was In May. 1891. whom Miss Welsh was 20
years old. that Thomas Carlyle appeared on
the scene. Mrs. Welsh had given Edward Irv-
ing leave to bring his already DISTINGUISHED
friend over to HaddinR,on and introduce him.
At this point Mrs. Ireland asks us tn consider
the real spiritual position OF these three peo-
pie. which was by no means outwardly ap-
parent Carlyle. the rugged. fery lsasnnt.
had assed through his ono teuder passion,
his love for Margaret Gordon tsiterwarI Lady
Bannuman). to whom. hut for the internosition
OF her friends. he would probably have been
sfIlnnc0d. He seems to have had ne o hor at
tachm, 1t TIL he met his fate in the bright eyes
OF Jane Welsh. Edwad Irving was engaged
to Miss Iaabea Martin. who subsequently,
became his wife. but tEere is no mys.
terry whatever as 10 the fact that he
loved his former pupil. Folded among Irvlng's
letters to Miss Welsh Is q passionate sonnet
addressed 10 her. and on the other side OF 1t a
fragment evidently wilton at this period. in
which he told her he was about to inform Miss
Martin. and possibly her father. OF tho real
state OF his feelings. Tho ardent girl then
knew that Irving loved her: she returned his
love. nnd no doubt blndly hoped. as he had
hoped, that The Martins would set him FREQ
from his engagement. They did not. and bel
lovo affair was over-luckily for her 1t may DO.
for she might have come to despise Irving.
but at tho worst she never could despise Car
lyle. However that may be. whom first she
mot the latter there was In her an smpti-
ness Of heart and seeking out for
some deeper interest In life. No wonder
the proud. brilliant girl looked with Inn
nense coutsmpt on her many would-be
admirers. ana thought within herself that 1t
WAS all mockery and sham. 1t Was to ltera-
Iurc that she now looked for an opening for
her ambition and an interest that should rot
! fail her: and !. WIS as q literary man OF supe.
rtcr talent Tint Carlyle was presen' cd to her in
her then vacant and dissatisfied state OF mind
and heart. Carlyle himself ut this time b.
lieved her to be entirely heart free. Writing
Of this visit later. he sald: The beautiful.
bright. earnest young lady was intent on liter
| ature as tho highest aim In life" les. he was
| 70 far deluded as to accept this astounding as
sertion from tho lips Of a fair creature ign GRANT
! of so much that goes TO make W harp no 9.
| subsequently no was undeoeiyed on enc oint
He know from her own pm that she
| had loved Irving passiouete!y." had hidden
| that love. had TESTED ut IrvinG's expense to
p,islead Carlyle and 10 shie!t her own heart
| like that bind which starts I'D IN solitary
moorland places with shrill cries. lowering
over the place where Its nest 10 not to protect
| tho precious nook whore 1t Is. Mrs. Ireland
SAYS Justly that this womaaly instinct must
not le harshly dealt with. There is in It n
sacred tenderness. and 1t has no renl kinsh.p
with deliberate misleading or untruth. 1t IL.
nevertheless certain that love such as Miss
Welsh had felt for Edward Irving is not put
| of as one puts OF Il garment. and. had Car
lyle been moro Ike other men. the letter In
| which she confessed to her former feeling
| would certainly have made him pause In his
| woong.
For man still In love Irving did rather q
strange thing In charging Carlyle with the d.
rec'ion OF Miss Wslsh's studies. But Mrs.
Ireland thinks that the German authors to
whom she was consequently introduced were
moro wholesome literary food than some Of
the books she had recently been reading. La
Nourelle II otse." for instance. would scarcely
suggest salutary ideas. and perhaps the lsast
hurtful aspect OF such reading was to foster q
contempt In Jane MslGh for the raw Scotch