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with the subject. Generally it was a single 

 and a simple subject round which he wove his 

 tapestry. The subject once conceived, he could 

 do nothing until his brain was charged and 

 possessed with it. 



His life has henceforth no incidents to record, 

 except those of work and illness. He worked, 

 he walked, he wrote, he walked again, he read, 

 he watched and observed, he thought. That 

 is his life, until illness fell upon him. Always 

 a silent man, always a man of few friends, 

 always a man of simple habits, in all weathers 

 delighting to be out of doors, refusing to put 

 on a great-coat or to carry an umbrella. 



He changed his residence several times. 

 From Surbiton, where he stayed for five years, 

 he went to West Brighton, to a house called 

 " Savernake." Did he himself christen it after 

 the forest which he knew so well? Thence, 

 in 1884, he went to Eltham, where he took a 

 house in the Victoria Road. Then, I suppose, 

 an irresistible yearning for some place far from 

 men seized him, for he moved again, and went 

 to live at a cottage two miles and a half from 

 Crowborough Station, near Crow borough Hill, 



