e whole scheme
into ridicule, and, of course, he never heard the sound of my voice
except in speaking, and yet I was left in the harassing uncertainty
whether I was to go or not. I resolved at last to prepare, as far as
lay in my power, for both cases, by taking, in the first place,
every opportunity, when all were from home, to imitate, with a gag
between my teeth, the solo parts of concertos, _shake and all_, such
as I had heard them play on the violin; in consequence I had gained
a tolerable execution before I knew how to sing. I next began to
knit ruffles, which were intended for my brother WILLIAM, in case I
remained at home--else they were to be JACOB'S. For my mother and
brother D. I knitted as many cotton stockings as would last two
years at least."

In August, 1772, her brother arrived at Hanover, to take her back to
England with him. The journey to London was made between August 16th and
26th, and soon after they went together to HERSCHEL'S house, No. 7 New
King's Street, Bath.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Wife of Major JOHN HERSCHEL, of the Royal Engineers,
grandson of Sir WILLIAM.

[2] Page 127.

[3] _Memoir_ of CAROLINA HERSCHEL, p. 10. Sir GEORGE AIRY,
Astronomer Royal, relates in the _Academy_ that this "removal" was a
desertion, as he was told by the Duke of Sussex that on the first visit
of HERSCHEL to the king, after the discovery of the _Georgium Sidus_,
the pardon of HERSCHEL was handed to him by the king himself, written
out in due form.

[4] FETIS; _Biographie universelle des musiciens_, tome V.
(1839) p. 141.

[5] Dr. MILLER, a noted organist, and afterwards historian of
Doncaster.

[6] _The Doctor_; by ROBERT SOUTHEY, edition of 1848, p.
140.

[7] He frequently gave thirty-five and thirty-eight lessons a
week to pupils at this time.

[8] According to FETIS. A search for these in London has led
me to the belief that FETIS, who is usually very accurate, is here
mistaken, and that these writings are by JACOB HERSCHEL.

[9] _Foreign Quarterly Review_, volume 31.

CHAPTER II.

LIFE IN BATH; 1772-1782.

It was to a busy life in Bath that HERSCHEL took his sister CAROLINA,
then twenty-two years old. She was a perfectly untried girl, of very
small accomplishments and outwardly with but little to attract. The
basis of her character was the possibility of an unchanging devotion to
one object; fo