THE STUDY AT DOWN.* 



CHAPTER IV. 



REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER'S EVERYDAY LIFE. 



It is my wish in the present chapter to give some idea of 

 my father's everyday life. It has seemed to me that I might 

 carry out this object in the form of a rough sketch of a day's 

 life at Down, interspersed with such recollections as are 

 called up by the record. Many of these recollections, which 

 have a meaning for those who knew my father, will seem 

 colourless or trifling to strangers. Nevertheless, I give them 

 in the hope that they may help to preserve that impression 

 of his personality which remains on the minds of those who 

 knew and loved him an impression at once so vivid and so 

 untranslatable into words. 



* 



From the Century Magazine, January 1883. 



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