Show REPEATED HIS GREAT WORK when thomas carlyle proved insul lerable to the slings sling and arrows arrow of outrageous Outrage ou fortune in 1835 there occurred an incident which would have deranged lera Ded an ordinary man thomas carlyle was living at 5 cheyne row chelsea near london he had not earned a penny says say he be to himself by the craft of illera ture tur for 23 months but with the push of A tiger he was plowing his way through his history of the french revolution the first volume was finished it had bad taken him five months to write it he loaned the mss ass to john stuart mill on a certain morning mill called upon carlyle his face as white as ashes after two hours of awkward fumbling 1111 managed to tell it he had left the priceless mas on a desk and the housemaid had bad taken it to light the morning fire in the grate 1 carlyle was like a stricken man but one on day as he sat dumbly bly at his window he saw cheery bricklayers bricklayer building a hodoe brick by brick he ha burst into tears and sobbing like a child he be cried 1 I too cart can bring back thought by thought though tl he did he recalled all of the mss ass and rewrote it what tor torture 1 |