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into contact with criminals who stand high socially. 

 They do not belong to what is called the criminal 

 class. She looks of that kind. I know the expression 

 well." The professor then told him who she was. I do 

 not know whether the man knew enough of her his- 

 tory to be aware that she had been accused of crime 

 and that a shadow of doubt still hangs over her. Per- 

 haps he did not see the coincidence between his own 

 comment and her sad life. 



TO MISS SARAH G. GARY 



Hotel Brunswick, London, June 10, 1895 

 IT gives me such a strange feeling to be on the other 

 side of my Cambridge and Oxford visits. I looked 

 forward to it all with pleasure but not without a cer- 

 tain sense of anxiety and responsibility. It has all 

 been simply delightful. Everything has been made 

 very easy for me, and I have seen and learned more 

 than I could have hoped to do. It has stimulated my 

 interest in our home work, and I shall be surprised if 

 it does not prove of serious value to me on my return. 

 After all, I think it helps one very much to see what 

 others are doing on the same lines on which you are 

 yourself working. Our last day was one of the best in 

 Oxford. In the morning I had a pleasant visit at the 

 Max Miillers', did not see him, because he was not 

 well, but she is a charming person. I had once or 

 twice spoken to her of a paper of her husband's, 

 which always interested me very much I think you 

 have heard me speak of it; it came out in Littell, and 



