456 LITE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xvm 



Lubbock's majority though I confess I was disheartened 

 to see so many educated men going in for the disruption 

 policy. If it were not for Randolph I should turn Tory, 

 but that fellow will some day oust Salisbury as Dizzy 

 ousted old Derby, and sell his party to Parnell or anybody 

 else who makes a good bid. 



We are nourishing on the whole. Sulphide of wife 

 joins with me in love. Ever yours, T. H. H. 



On the 21st he writes : 



The formation of Huxley sulphide will be brought to 

 a sudden termination to-morrow when we return to 

 London. The process has certainly done my wife a great 

 deal of good and I wish it could have gone on a week or 

 two longer, but our old arrangements are upset and we 

 must start with the chicks for Switzerland on the 27th, 

 that is next Tuesday. 



