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THE STUDY AT DOWN * 



CHAPTER IV. 



REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER'S EVERYDAY LIFE. 



It is my wish in the present chapter to give some idea of my 

 father's everyday life. It has seemed to me that I might carry 

 out this object in the form of a rough sketch of a day's life at 

 Down, interspersed with such recollections as are called up by 

 the record. Many of these recollections, which have a meaning 

 for those who knew my father, will seem colourless or trifling 

 to strangers. Nevertheless, I give them in the hope that they 

 may help to preserve that impression of his personality which 

 remains on the minds of those who knew and loved him — an 

 impression at once so vivid and so untranslatable into words. 



* From the Century Magazine, January 1883. 



