1872-1876] Letters to Leonard at Malta 223 



Friday. August 41h [1870]. 



The time passes so quickly in our methodical life that I 

 find I have been 1<> days without, writing to you. . . . K. 

 has finished his Autobiography and I find it very interr- 

 ing, but another person who did not know beforehand so 

 many of the things would find it more so. 



DOWN. 



. . . We have been rather overdone with Germans tin's 

 week. Hiickel came on Tuesday. He was very nice ami 

 hearty and a fleet innate, but he bellowed out his bad English 

 in such a voice that he nearly deafened us. However that 

 was nothing to yesterday when Professor Cohn (quite deaf) 

 and his wife (very pleasing) and a Professor R. came to 

 lunch anything like the noiso they made I never heard. 

 Both visits were short and F. was dad to have seen 

 them. . . . Have you read the spiritual trials? I think 

 that the sentence was too severe, at least as to hard 

 labour, viz. .'? months' imprisonment. If people are so 

 credulous some allowance ought to be made for the rogues. 



Suliirday [1S76 *] 



. . . We had two comical visitors on Sunday about (V 

 two Scotch students who were seeing the sights in London 

 and came here (via Greenwich and IVekenham) to see tin- 

 great man's house and place. When t hey got here tiny 

 thought they would also try to see the great man himself. 

 and sent- in their names. 1<\ went to speak to the; i far a 

 few minute., and Horace showed them about, and started 

 them to London by a straighter route than their former 

 one. They were very modest and \\ell behaved, and some 

 thing like gentlemen. Do you P6 iber a working man 

 from Australia who rushed in to shake hands with him a 



vr ago, and was for going straight- oil' again \\ithout 

 another word. We have heard of him again from a 

 Canadian who met him on the mad to California, on foo* 



