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have read much and thought much: they have apparently exhausted their
must be, but I do not think he liked mystery. One morning he told me
one of his household: though, as he joked, he was not in a state to see.html">see
as to ghosts, he said, He was like Coleridge: he had seen too many of
restricted oath which I have reported him using in a moment of transport
imprecation, and this one seldom.
Any grossness of speech was inconceivable of him; now and then, but only
much for his sense of humor.html">humor, and overcame him with amusement which he was
it reached you. In this he was like the other great Cambridge men,
He keenly delighted in every native and novel turn of phrase, and he
even if it had some dirt sticking to it.
He kept as close to the common life.html">life.html">life as a man of his patrician instincts
it and be sure of delighting him; after I began making my involuntary and
country, he was always glad to talk them over with me. Still, when I had
cultivated, I was aware of a subtle grudge mingling with his pleasure;
bearing that would have kept the common life aloof from him, if that life
retrospect, I see him in the sack coat and rough suit which he wore upon
him with a high hat on till he came home after his diplomatic stay in
as conventional as he had formerly been indifferent. In both epochs he
sensation of their vigor for some time after they had clasped yours,
somewhat long; it was darker than his beard.html">beard, which was branching and
neither hair nor beard was then touched with gray, as I now remember.
of the most beautiful that could be; his eyes were gay with humor, and
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