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being superseded, even by the other. The incidents 

 related here have probably long since been forgotten by 

 him, as they had been by me until I read my own letters 

 recalling them. 



By the time under notice I had come to understand 

 the sincere, if rugged, good will of Doctor Temple, whom I 

 liked more and more as the terms passed until he left us, 

 in the winter of 1869, for the see of Exeter. It used to be 

 a difficult thing to keep awake on Sunday afternoons 

 in chapel after a dinner which tended to repletion, but 

 the Doctor wakened us up with his sermons, into which he 

 put so much real grit that often and often the tears would 

 roll down his cheeks from his intense feeling of what he 

 preached. 



Many years later I interviewed him, when he was Bishop 

 of London, and was not surprised that he did not recognise 

 me, for I knew he was so short-sighted, but when I men- 

 tioned my name, he said : " Oh yes, I remember your voice 

 perfectly," and I quite believed this. 



About ten years later still, I was at a " gaudy " (a 

 dinner) at Balliol College, to meet him, then Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, and other old Rugbeians. It so happened 

 that I sat next Warner, and when our good old headmaster, 

 as black-haired as ever, was on his legs speaking, it seemed 

 as if the clock had been put back and we were at school 

 again, first and second in the Vlth form, but a glance at 

 Warner dispelled the illusion, for he was bald-headed. 



The dinner ended, and I was staying the night in college, 

 but I felt bound to go and shake hands with Doctor 

 Temple before leaving, so approached him, and again I 

 could see his eyesight failed him. " Allison," I said, as 

 I held out my hand. 



" I recognise your voice at once," he replied, and I went 

 away quite satisfied that he really remembered me for 

 had I not been three years in his form, and was I not 

 second in the school when he left Rugby ? 



So far so good, but another old Rugbeian who had never 

 got beyond the Lower Middle School was also one of the 



