Note 5 — LETTER LXVI.
Reading edition
With this picture, will you compare that so opportunely furnished me by the author of the ‘Angel in the House,’5 of the modern Camilla, in “white bodice, purple knee-breeches, which she had borrowed from an Ethiopian serenader, red stockings, and shoes.” From this sphere of Ethiopian aspiration, may not even the divinely emancipated spirit of Cobbe cast one glance—“Backward, Ho”?