376 GEORGE JOHN ROMANES 1894 



and a friend, Mrs. Crawfurd, of Auchinames, who 

 shared this interest, used to beguile many weary 

 hours with ghost stories, and he and she used to 

 4 cap ' each other's narratives. 



There were pleasant people in the hotels around, 

 and the bright sunshine and balmy air were 

 great sources of enjoyment to him. Dr. Bidon, of 

 Hyeres, was unfailing in constant kindness, and it 

 would be ungrateful not to say how much was owed 

 to the kind landlord, M. Peyron, and to Madame 

 Peyron. 



The journey to England was apparently borne 

 without undue fatigue, and the home-coming was 

 very bright, with joyous meeting with his children 

 and with various friends. The only difficulty was to 

 keep him quiet enough. It was said one day, ' When 

 you go home you must not see too many people.' 

 ' Oh, no,' he replied, ' I only want to see Paget, and 

 Dr. Sanderson, and Gore, and Philip (Waggett), and 

 Mrs. Woods, and Ray Lankester, and ' but he 

 stopped, laughing, the list was already so long and 

 would soon have been doubled. For a few days his 

 wife was away, and during this brief absence a very 

 dear friend, Miss Eose Price, the daughter of the 

 Master of Pembroke, died. 



He writes : 



To Mrs. Romanes. 



How glad I am you are still mine ! I have 

 just returned from Eose's funeral, which was all but 

 too much for me. As you know, I have seen other 

 such things on a grander scale, but never any 

 approach to this one in point of beauty and pathos. 

 The College Chapel was completely filled with 



