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nor arrange ; in their fragmentariness he treasured 

 them, in their reserve he trusted them, waiting faith- 

 fully to see what they might have to show him. And 

 they did not fail him. This is not the place in which 

 to try to speak of the graces and the gladness which 

 from such loyal sincerity passed into his life, nor of 

 the clearer light that grew and spread before his wist- 

 ful, hopeful gaze. But it hardly can be wrong to 

 have said thus much of so noble and so timely a 

 pattern of allegiance to all truth discerned ; and of 

 this great lesson in a life which seemed even here to 

 have the earnest of that promise — ' He that seeketh, 

 findeth ' — a life which seemed to be moving steadily 

 towards the blessing of the pure in heart, the vision 



of Almighty God.^ 



F. P. 



A letter from Mr. Gladstone cannot be omitted, 

 and seems to come in fittingly at this place : 



1 Carlton Gardens : June. 



Dear Mrs. Romanes, — My present circumstances 

 are not very favourable to direct personal communi- 

 cation, and my personal intercourse with Mr. Romanes 

 was so scanty in its quantity as hardly to warrant my 

 present intrusion, but I cannot help writing a few 

 words for the purpose of conveying my deep sympathy 

 on the heavy bereavement you have sustained, and 

 further of saying how deep an impression he left upon 

 my mind in the point of character not less than of 

 capacity. He was one of the men whom the age 



' Beprinted from the Guardian of June 6. 



