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for, knowledge of, or touch with, literature, 

 or its makers. Authors must develop and 

 increase their own Society, and then they will 

 not have to ask the Government for any Civil 

 Pension list at all, and ministers may go on 

 asking for the grant for the support of science 

 and letters, and giving it all to their own 

 creatures, and to the daughters, widows, and 

 sisters of officers. It is hard, it is cruelly 

 hard, as Jefferies said : it is a hardship and a 

 disgrace to all of us that such a man as 

 Jefferies should " come to such disgrace." 



Well, the fund was raised, quietly, among 

 the private friends of its promoters. But it 

 came too late for the Algerian or South African 

 expedition. The sick man was sent, however, 

 to the seaside ; to a house at Goring, on the 

 Sussex coast. From this place he wrote to 

 Mr. Scott a little history of his illness, the 

 nature of which I have already sketched. 

 The description by a highly-sensitive man, 

 then in a most nervous condition, of the 

 horrible pain which he had been enduring is 

 most terrible to read, and is altogether too 

 terrible to be quoted. I dare not quote the 



