husband's memory, with great animation and excitement; her hand in
a strong tremor. It was impossible not to enter into her feelings.

Then comes the struggle for the palm:--

_Monday, November 7th to Saturday 12th._--In the schools or
preparing. Read most of Niebuhr. Finished going over the
_Agamemnon_. Got up Aristophanic and other hard words. Went over my
books of extracts, etc. Read some of Whately's rhetoric. Got up a
little Polybius, and the history out of Livy, decade one. In the
schools Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; each day about six and a
half hours at work or under. First Stratford's speech into Latin
with logical and rhetorical questions--the latter somewhat
abstract. Dined at Gaskell's and met Pearson, a clever and
agreeable man. On Thursday a piece of Johnson's preface in morning,
in evening critical questions which I did very badly, but I
afterwards heard, better than _the rest_, which I could not and
cannot understand. On Friday we had in the morning historical
questions. Wrote a vast quantity of matter, ill enough digested. In
the evening, Greek to translate and illustrate. Heard cheering
accounts indirectly of myself, for which I ought to be very
thankful.... Dined with Pearson at the Mitre. Very kind in him to
ask me. Made Saturday in great measure an idle day. Had a good ride
with Gaskell. Spent part of the evening with him. Read about six
hours. _Sunday, November 13th._--Chapel thrice. Breakfast and
much conversation with Cameron. Read Bible. Some divinity of a
character approaching to cram. Looked over my shorter abstract of
Butler. Tea with Harrison. Walk with Gaskell. Wine with Hamilton,
more of a party than I quite liked or expected. Altogether my mind
was in an unsatisfactory state, though I heard a most admirable
sermon from Tyler on Bethesda, which could not have been more
opportune if written on purpose for those who are going into the
schools. But I am cold, timid, and worldly, and not in a healthy
state of mind for the great trial of to-morrow, to which I know I
am utterly and miserably unequal, but which I also know will be
sealed for good....

Here is his picture of his _viva voce_ examination:--

_November 14th._--Spent the morning chiefly in looking over my
Polybius; short abstract of ethics, and definitions