CHAPTER II — THE CARBURY FAMILY

Something of herself and condition Lady Carbury has told the reader in the letters given in the former chapter, but more must be added.  She has declared she had been cruelly slandered; but she has also shown that she was not a woman whose words about herself could be taken with much confidence.  If the reader does not understand so much from her letters to the three editors they have been written in vain.  She has been made to say that her object in work was to provide for the need of her children, and that with that noble purpose before her she was struggling to make for herself a career in literature.  Detestably false as had been her letters to the editors, absolutely and abominably foul as was the entire system by which she was endeavouring to...