6 GEOEGB JOHN EOMANES i87o- 



work characterised by an ever-increasing reverence 

 for goodness, and, as years went on, by a disregard 

 for applause or for reward. His Cambridge life was. 

 happy ; he made several friends, chief of whom was- 

 Mr. Proby Cautley, the present rector of Quainton 

 near Aylesbury. 



He enjoyed boating, and once narrowly escaped 

 drowning in the Cam.^ 



At first George Eomanes fell completely under 

 Evangelical influences, at that time practically the 

 most potent religious force in Cambridge. He was a 

 regular communicant, and it is touching to look at 

 the little Bible he used while at Cambridge, worn, 

 and marked, and pencilled, with references to sermons 

 which had evidently caught the boy's attention. He 

 used to attend meetings for Greek Testament study, 

 and enjoyed hearing the distinguished preachers who 

 visited the University. 



But of the intellectiLol influences in the rehgious- 

 world of the University he knew nothing. F. D. 

 Maurice was still in Cambridge, but he seems to have 

 repelled rather than to have attracted George Eo- 

 manes, nor did he ever come under the influence of 

 Westcott, or of Lightfoot, or of Hort. 



And, when the intellectual struggles began, he 

 seems in early years to have owed very little to any 

 Christian writer. Bishop Butler alone excepted. 



His summers were spent in Eoss-shire, and there- 

 is no doubt these months were of great use to him. 

 He was perfectly unharassed so far as pecuniary cares 

 or family ambition were concerned, and he had abun- 

 dant time to think. Years afterwards, Mr. Darmn 



1 His younger sister records an odd experience of hers. At the time 

 of her brother's accident she was travelling in Spain with her father and 

 sister, and one day was taken suddenly ill, became slightly delirious, and 

 expressed great anxiety on George's account. Afterwards, on comparing^ 

 notes, it was found that the time of his accident coincided with that of her 

 illness. 



