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testimonials ; he was always ready to go and see 

 people who were sad or lonely ; he was never too 

 busy to be kind. He was intensely loved by those 

 who served him, and few have been better served. 

 There were very few changes in his household, and 

 no one was ever more unwilling to give needless 

 trouble, to find fault without cause, than he, or more 

 ready to be really grateful for the ungrudging and 

 loving and devoted service he received. ' You were 

 the nicest master I ever served,' wrote a gamekeeper. 

 < To think I have lived for fifteen years with him 

 and never heard a cross word,' was said the day he 

 was taken from his home. In money matters he was 

 generous and almost lavish in readiness to give and 

 also to lend. 



In Mr. Romanes there was a certain chivalrous 

 temper which could be roused to strong indignation 

 where it was encountered by injustice and oppression, 

 and the following letter to the ' Times ' is one of 

 many such : 



To the Editor of the l Times.' 



Sir, On several previous occasions I have been 

 instrumental in obtaining remission of grievous sen- 

 tences at the police-courts by simply drawing atten- 

 tion in your correspondence columns to the cases as 

 they appear in your police reports. Adopting this 

 course, I think that the following, which appeared in 

 your issue of the 29th ult., requires some explana- 

 tion : 



4 At Wandsworth, , aged 17, a weakly-looking 



lad, residing at , was charged with stealing two tur- 

 nips, value 3d., growing in a field belonging to Mr. H. 



