Eureka Reporter | 1904-07-29 | Page 7 | Heaped Coals of Fire

HEAPED COALS OF FIRE lord pad carlyle high cornal ment carlyle was once offered a baronet cy by lord to his brother he wrote the enclosed let ter and copy of my answer ought to go to you as a family curiosity and secret nobody whatever yet knows of it beyond our two selves except lady derby whom I 1 believe to be the contriver of the whole affair you would have been surprised all of you to have found unexpectedly your poor old brother tom converted into sir tom bart but alas there was no danger at any moment of euch a catastrophe I 1 do however truly ad mire the magnanimity of dizzy la regard to me he Is the only man I 1 al most never spoke of except with con tempt and it there Is anything ot scurrility anywhere chargeable against me I 1 am sorry to own he Is subject of it and yet see here I 1 he comes with a pan ot hot coals for my guilty head I 1 am on the whole gratified a little within my own dark heart at this mark of the good will ot high people 1