Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow.

Carlyle is the climax (or, at least, one of the climaces) of that Germanic influence which first appeared in general literature about the time of Scott, and which, indeed, Scott himself helped on, just about a year after Carlyle was born, by his translations of “Burger’s Ballads,” and Göthe’s “Götz von Berlichengen.”

All of them have extended our knowledge of the development of English beyond Southern England (Rissanen 2000: 11), thereby favouring a non-austrocentric perspective.

But it seemed there was never a flinch or second thought on his part about being with a transgirl, even when they started having sex, some few months into the relationship.