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cut short. . . . ' Somewhat too much of this,' how- 

 ever. What I want to tell you is that I managed to 

 get to London on Friday for the purpose of consult- 

 ing my doctors as to my prospects. They take a 

 more hopeful view than I expected, i.e. notwith- 

 standing that I have had three attacks in one year 

 (in both eyes and now in the brain), it is not inevit- 

 able that I should have another for years to come, 

 provided that I become a strict teetotaller, vege- 

 tarian, hermit, and abstainer from work. In short, 

 ' that my rule of life,' ' the exemplar ' for my ' imita- 

 tion,' is to be that of a tortoise. Hence it does not 

 appear that there is any immediate necessity for 

 saying farewell to my friends, and hence also I will 

 not bother you by falling in with your kind proposal 

 to come over from Cambridge to see me, much as I 

 should like to see you in any case. But if you would 

 care to pay a visit to Oxford any time between this 

 and to-morrow week (16th), when I shall start for the 

 vicinity of Nice, we should both be awfully glad to 

 put you up. I think Dyer will probably be with us 

 from Saturday to Monday (14 to 16). 



With our united very kind regards to all, 

 Yours ever sincerely, 



G. J. EOMANES. 



To Professor Huxley. 



94 St. Aldate's, Oxford : October 9, 1893. 



My dear Mr. Huxley, — We are so very sorry to 

 have missed seeing you. Indeed it seems a curious 

 irony of fate that, after having been caged in my 

 house for the last three months, I should have been 



