I like your lady
friend. She has both "Sense and Sensibility," and is free from
"Pride and Prejudice." She told me that she had been brought up by
an Evangelical grandmother, and is none the worse for it.
I begin to think bed is a very nice place, and I see a great deal
of it, not altogether from laziness, but because it is the only
way in which I am able to work.
I have just read the life of Newman, who was a strange character.
To me he seems to have been the most artificial man of our
generation, full of ecclesiastical loves and hatred. Considering
what he really was, it is wonderful what a space he has filled in
the eyes of mankind. In speculation he was habitually untruthful
and not much better in practice. His conscience had been taken
out, and the Church put in its place. Yet he was a man of genius,
and a good man in the sense of being disinterested. Truth is very
often troublesome, but neither the world nor the individual can
get on without it.
Here is the postman appearing at 12 o'clock, as disagreeable a
figure as the tax-gatherer.
May you have good sleep and pleasant dreams. I shall still look
forward to seeing you with Lady Wemyss.
Believe me always,
Yours affectionately,
B. JOWETT.
BALLIOL COLLEGE, Sep. 8,1892.
MY DEAR MARGARET,
Your kind letter was a very sweet consolation to me. It was like
you to think of a friend in trouble.
Poor Nettleship, whom we have lost, was a man who cannot be
replaced--certainly not in Oxford.
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