NOTE xv. 



steward, and his sense of responsibility prevented 

 him spending upon himself what he spent upon 

 others. 



As we think of him there comes back to us the 

 words of the great poet of the Victorian era, in 

 which he described perhaps the greatest English- 

 man of his day: 



" O good gray head which all men knew, 

 voice from which their omens all men drew, 

 iron nerve to true occasion true, 

 fall'n at length that tower of strength 

 Which stood four-square to all the winds that 

 blew!" 



