The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

thing l said to him that was quite un-
justifiable -. am going out of
town and don't know where"
He writes later of his effort to forget
MS trouble in work and of the quite
SATANIC passages he wrote in eonse-
aoence. He has had letter from Mrs
fanshaw enclosing one from Mrs Brook.
tieid to Mrs. Fanshaw about Thackeray
and he writes:
Mrs Fanshaw sent me a letter of hers
eArs. Brookfield) about me and at me
and what do you think 1 did2 | wrote
paek TO Mrs. T. 20 inform her principal
that even this roundabout correspondence
oushtht to be; that her husband. act
ing at this moment nobiy and gently.
must be nobly and gently used. and until
lie authorized correspondence none such
must be- And now, and now if she's in
torment take her a drop of water VITA
you from another soul in purgato1.v',
ihackerays determination not to COM
muhlcate with Mrs. Brookfield weakened
SO that he wrote her letter; then
strengthened again enough to lead him To
a compromise He didn't DESTROY the let
ter, but sent it to Miss Perry, who doubt
less showed it to Mrs Brookfield. This
was in September, 1852.
The fact of your position makes it im-
possible to write almost. / am not to show
that you are miserable. l am not to show
that | think your husband is wicked and
cruel to you. [ am not to show that |
think you know that you are unhappv
and are treated with the most CRUEL
tyranny Nobody is 10 know anything
OF your misery. We are to go on glina
nins as if we We're happy, because viii.
iam's cough is certainly very bad, and he
should not be disturbed in exercising his
temper What hasn't she given
up for that man? Youth and happiness
and now her dearest friend-what a
fr1end-and to what mana fellow that
says to her face he ought to have mar
REC a cook and treats her like one He'll
do better now after this great shock and
SHOWS great generosity on great oc,
casion Good-by; don't mind my cries
and my rage. l shall be better soon"
About week later Thackeray brood
ing over his separation from the Brook
fields, was disposed to blame Mrs Brook
field as well as her husband, and himself
most of all. He writes to Miss Perry.
L don't see how any woman should
/
did j.. l don't. see how any man should
not love a woman so beautiful so un-
happy, SO tender; l don't see how any
husband, however he might have treated
her, should be indifferent at the idea OF
losing it. I'm sure that one or the
other on their side We're wrong in not
dismissins me. | wish that [
had never loved her. | have been played
with by a woman and flung over at a beck
from the lord and master-that's what [
feel. l was packing away yes
terday the letters of years These didn't
make me cry. They made, me laugh, as
| knew they would. 1t was for this that
gave my heart away. 1t is When are
you coming, dear Mr. Thackeray? and
William will be so happy and 4 thought
after you had gone away how l had for
got, ETC., and at a word from Broollfield
afterward it is, I reverence and admire
him and love him with not merely a duti-
full but a genuine love. Amen The
thought that | have been made fool of
is the bitterest of all. perhaps
Good-by l wish it was my novel I'd
been writing on all these pages.
A month later or therea bouts Thacl1-
cray and Brook1eld We're reconciled.
Thackeray writes:
This morning was spent in parleys
and the inspector Ca frequently used
pseudonym for Brookfield) and | shook
hands at the end, and I'm very thankful
that the dear little heart is made tfan-
quill ON the score of our enmity at least.
Friends of course We are not. but bear
each other and in six months things may
be better"
In later letters to Miss Perry or her
sister Thackeray is writing from America
and there are few references to Mrs.
Brookfeld. He tells of his flattering re-
ception while lecturing in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and other cities. It's
nothing but dollars and fiattery' he says.