44 PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR 



with a touch of irresoluteness : not the voice of a 

 man who cared for arguments and speech- making. 

 He had been brought up in the Society of Friends : 

 and his peaceful face and voice revealed the peace 

 of his spiritual life. He held on like iron to his 

 purposes : but he did not look so masterful as he 

 was. He smiled, not laughed : a smile of singular 

 beauty, but hard to interpret in all its bearings : 

 yet it was far more eloquent, or more disconcerting, 

 than the average man's laughter. Mostly, he 

 looked tired : not tired of science and practice, but 

 tired of being told that every country of the world 

 was thankful for his work ; that he had saved more 

 lives than the armies of Napoleon had destroyed ; 

 that all mankind was daily and everlastingly grate- 

 ful to him. Tired, lonely, and, long before he died, 

 broken in health and in the enjoyment of living, 

 one thinks of him, still, as a man serene through 

 controversy, a spirit of invincible patience and of 

 radiant purity. 



