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in November of the same year, when he played 

 three games with three of the boys, taking each 

 in turn as his partner, and won every game. 

 Mr. Philip Norman has assured me that as a 

 young man his activity in the fives court and his 

 ability at the game were quite exceptional. He 

 was still, and up to the end of his life, of a 

 slender, light figure, well compact, with no 

 superfluity of flesh, and nearly always in good 

 health. He was very temperate and never smoked. 

 On Monday August 4 in this year, being one of 

 the Bank Holidays that he had instituted, we find 

 him playing in a cricket match at High Elms, and 

 most appropriately scoring a triumphant 44 not 

 out! 



On February 19 he has a note which will rouse 

 a responsive echo in many hearts. " Went to 

 Pygmalion and Galatea with Mrs. Pitt Rivers, 

 Miss Fox Pitt, and a small party : admired Miss 

 Anderson very much." Who that saw that most 

 beautiful performance will not have shared in 

 that admiration for the then Mary Anderson, 

 now Madame Navarro ? 



On March 18 his daughter Amy, the widow of 

 Mr. Mulholland, married Mr. Van Zandt. 



But there are many evidences in the story of 

 his life at this moment of the imminence of a 

 similar event which should touch him far more 

 closely. Entries in the diary of the early part 

 of this year show very frequent meetings, at 

 Rushmore and in London, with Miss Alice 

 Fox Pitt, and on April 12 he proposed to 

 her and had the happiness of being accepted. 

 He makes a characteristically naive comment in 



