tion she observed that most of them ought to be put in the seventh, that is, the lowest class, and that for the others a new and still lower class should be created.
Nor was her habit of dreaming incompatible with practical activity when effort seemed necessary. For example, one night whilst yet it was dark,though dawn was near, she heard a trampling in the stable-yard, and going from bed to window she dimly discerned that the carriage horse had got out of the meadow where she was wont to be left at night, and was making her way to the gate beyond the stable out into the high-road. No time was to be lost; she threw a cloak over her nightdress, put her feet into slippers, and, thus attired, rushed out with a heavy rain pouring down upon her loose streaming hair. She caught the animal in time and led her back to the meadow over the broken-down gate, which she showed the greatest reluctance to cross. She then observed that another little gate into the garden was out of repair and easily opened, and hurried back to the house to fetch some string. In the meanwhile the delinquent had once more got out, pushed open the outer yard gate, and
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