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leur latin ' ; but one of them says there is a chance 

 of heat bringing me round. We start, therefore, 

 on Thursday next at 3 p.m., and arrive at Marseilles 

 next day at 2.30. Is not that wonderful? I 

 remember travelling five days and nights from 

 Marseilles to Paris, to be j)resent at Coronation's 

 Derby. — Yours ever sincerely, 



" W. H. Gkegory." 



That journey to Marseilles he was not permitted 

 to make. At the close of February and during 

 the opening days of March the cold became daily 

 more intense, and told with fatal severity upon his 

 enfeebled frame. For many days before his death 

 he lay unconscious of the tender solicitude lavished 

 upon him by his devoted wife, who never left his 

 bedside by night or day. Upon Sunday, March 6, 

 1892, the end came. No man ever retrieved more 

 honourably the errors of his youth ; and to him 

 more than to any other man of my acquaintance 

 might be applied the well-known French proverb, 

 *' On ne revient pas de si loin j)our peu de chose." 



