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Later in the autumn he wrote : 



To Mrs. Henry Polloch. 



Geanies : October 9, 1890. 



My dear Mentor, — The Ijnc is certainly very 

 pretty, but I am still — and much — more touched 

 by the unrhymed, and perhaps unconscious, poetry 

 that accompanies it. We have, indeed, many associ- 

 ations with Greanies in common ; -^ and as neither the 

 joys nor the sorrows of them can ever return into our 

 lives as they were when they arose, it is perhaps 

 better that they should be kept in our memories as 

 they now are, without being overlaid by future 

 experiences in the same moods and the same chffs by 

 the same sea. ' The water that has passed ' has been 

 beautiful, even in its sadness ; and however long the 

 wheel of hfe may still have to go, I do not think it 

 could have done better work for any of us than 

 during the years that it has gone at Geanies. 



With my philosophic love to both of you, ever 

 the same, 



Geo. J. KoMANEs. 



My very dear Mentor, — You are quite too kind to 

 me. The touching Httle present has just arrived, 

 and I am smoking it now. It is just the kind that I 

 Hke best. I wonder whether the vendor thought it 

 was for yourself ? Very many thanks. 



Ethel sends her love, and tells me to ask you 

 whether you want a copy of the photo group, where 

 you do not look like a Mentor. 



I enclose payment for the pipe in the form of son- 



' This was the last smnmer at Geanies . 



