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but we might almost fancy the .expression in question to 

 have disappeared from these. Especially in the last of 

 them, all is serene, composed, and assured now (it is 

 taken within a year of his death) ; there is a reflective 

 look in it almost a look, indeed, of rather sad reflection. 

 On the other hand, it is the eyebrows that are the 

 prominent feature in the remaining portrait. Each is 

 shaggier now, with a terrier-like look ; and the face itself 

 seems smaller somehow, more set-like is it as still in 

 battle that it is set ? 



Eeturning now to the squire-like portrait of the 

 checked waistcoat, the checked neckerchief, and the 

 shaven face between the gentlemanly side-whiskers, with 

 the fine bald forehead rounding down to the rugged ridge 

 over the honest eyes, succeeded by the insignificant nose, 

 the peculiar mouth, and the broadish chin, it is the moutli 

 was specially remarked on. One fancies there is an 

 expression on it as though hiding simple gratification at 

 the compliment (of the sitting), but returning to a usual 

 surface, as it were, of habitual unpretending plainness 

 and unreflected, yet considerate, sincerity. And yet 

 again that mouth seems almost to be saying, you are 

 looking at me, and I fear you do not see much in me 

 I am not quite sure that you do not see an ignoramus in 

 me, which perhaps I am and perhaps with a twist of 

 the chin ! I am not. But, with whatever shade of con- 

 tradicting defiance, there is at the same time an expression, 

 amiable and good, half of admitted, half of denied slowness. 

 "He was at first inclined to rate everything too highly "- 

 that (i. 57) seems somehow just to go with such a look. 

 " I would as soon have died," he writes to Huxley (ii. 

 324), knowing well that he would be powerless to 

 express hirnself in public "I would as soon have 

 died as tried to answer the Bishop in such an assembly." 

 I know I am not quick is, virtually, a sort of frequent 



