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shamming, but you have never been one of those." And it 

 must be remembered that at this time he was miserably ill, 

 far worse than in later years. His eyes were bluish grey 

 under deep overhanging brows, with thick bushy projecting 

 eyebrows. His high forehead was much wrinkled, but other- 

 wise his face was not much marked or lined. His expression 

 showed no signs of the continual discomfort he suffered. 



When he was excited with pleasant talk his whole manner 

 was wonderfully bright and animated, and his face shared to 

 the full in the general animation. His laugh was a free and 

 sounding peal, like that of a man who gives himself sympa- 

 thetically and with enjoyment to the person and the thing 

 which have amused him. He often used some sort of gesture 

 with his laugh, lifting up his hands or bringing one down with 

 a slap. I think, generally speaking, he was given to gesture, 

 and often used his hands in explaining anything (e.g. the 

 fertilisation of a flower) in a way that seemed rather an aid 

 to himself than to the listener. He did this on occasions 

 when most people would illustrate their explanations by 

 means of a roagh pencil sketch. 



He wore dark clothes, of a loose and easy fit. Of late 

 years he gave up the tall hat even in London, and wore a 

 soft black one in winter, and a big straw hat in summer. His 

 usual out-of-doors dress was the short cloak in which Elliot 

 and Fry's photograph represents him leaning against the 

 pillar of the verandah. Two peculiarities of his indoor dress 

 were that he almost always wore a shawl over his shoulders, 

 and that he had great loose cloth boots lined with fur which 

 he could slip on over his indoor shoes. Like most delicate 

 people he suffered from heat as well as from chilliness ; it 

 was as if he could not hit the balance between too hot and 

 too cold ; often a mental cause would make him too hot, so 

 that he would take off his coat if anything went wrong in the 

 course of his work. 



He rose early, chiefly because he could not lie in bed, and 

 I think he would have liked to get up earlier than he did. 

 He took a short turn before breakfast, a habit which began 



