310 GEOEGB JOHN EOMANES 1893 



In June Mr. Eomanes took a small house for the 

 summer months outside Oxford at Boar's Hill, a 

 district well known to Oxford people, and it was hoped 

 country air and quiet might do him much good. 



He was rather headachy, and liked to lie on the 

 grass in the garden and have novels read to him, but 

 he was able to go up to London one day, and even 

 planned to take a journey to Wiesbaden in order to 

 consult an eminent oculist. 



But on July 11 he was stricken down by hemi- 

 plegia. And now began the last year of patient 

 endurance, for from that time the Shadow of Death 

 was ever on him, and he knew it ; from that July day 

 he regarded himself as doomed. Sometimes the 

 thought of leaving those whom he loved with such 

 intense devotion, such wonderful tenderness, over- 

 whelmed him ; sometimes the longing to finish his 

 work was too great to be borne, but generally he was 

 calm, and always, even when he was most sad, he 

 was gentle and patient, and willing to be amused. 



On July 13 Dr. Paget gave him the Holy Com- 

 munion. 



He slowly recovered from this attack, and there 

 were hopes — not of perfect health, but of life, and 

 of power to work. Now, more resolutely than ever, 

 he set himself to face the ultimate problems of Life 

 and Being, to face the question of the possibility of a 

 return to Faith. 



It is impossible here to tell of the inner workings 

 of that pure and unselfish soul, of those longings and 

 searchings after God, of the gradual growth in stead- 

 fast endurance, in faith. 



To one or two these are known, and the example 

 of lofty patience and of single-heartedness is not one 

 they are likely to forget. Of this more later. 



It was almost pathetic to see how keen and 

 vigorous his intellect was. In fact, the great 



