The extraordinary element had been for me to discover in England that she changed into nonetheless alive: it became as though I were instructed Mrs. Siddons became, or Queen Caroline, or the famous Lady Hamilton, for it regarded to me that she belonged to a generation as extinct. “Why, she must be highly antique—at least 100,” I had said; however on coming to bear in mind dates I noticed that it was no longer strictly crucial that she ought to have surpassed via very masses the common span.
