But I must disillusion you a little. There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one. I gave the money last night to the widow, a woman in consumption, crushed with trouble, and not 'on the pretext of the funeral,' but simply to pay for the funeral, and not to the daughter - a young woman, as he writes, of notorious behaviour (whom I saw last night for the first time in my life) - but to the widow.🏁

But I must disillusion you a little. There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one. I gave the money last night to the widow, a woman in consumption, crushed with trouble, and not 'on the pretext of the funeral,' but simply to pay for the funeral, and not to the daughter - a young woman, as he writes, of notorious behaviour (whom I saw last night for the first time in my life) - but to the widow.🏁