!^6 REMINISCENCES. 



devotion which prompted all this constant and tender care. 

 But it is, I repeat, a principal feature of his life, that for 

 nearly forty years he never knew one day of the health of 

 ordinary men, and that thus his life was one long struggle 

 against the weariness and strain of sickness. And this cannot 

 be told without speaking of the one condition which enabled 

 him to bear the strain and fight out the struggle to the end. 



