. Also some hard
words. Went into the schools at ten, and from this time was little
troubled with fear. Examined by Stocker in divinity. I did not
answer as I could have wished. Hampden [the famous heresiarch] in
science, a beautiful examination, and with every circumstance in my
favour. He said to me, 'Thank you, you have construed extremely
well, and appear to be thoroughly acquainted with your books,' or
something to that effect. Then followed a very clever examination
in history from Garbett, and an agreeable and short one in my poets
from Cremer, who spoke very kindly to me at the close. I was only
put on in eight books besides the Testament, namely Rhetoric,
Ethics, _Phaedo_, Herodotus, Thucydides, _Odyssey_, Aristophanes
(_Vespae_), and Persius. Everything was in my favour; the examiners
kind beyond everything; a good many persons there, and all
friendly. At the end of the science, of course, my spirits were
much raised, and I could not help at that moment [giving thanks] to
Him without whom not even such moderate performances would have
been in my power. Afterwards rode to Cuddesdon with the Denisons,
and wrote home with exquisite pleasure.

HIS DOUBLE FIRST CLASS

I have read a story by some contemporary how all attempts to puzzle him
by questions on the minutest details of Herodotus only brought out his
knowledge more fully; how the excitement reached its climax when the
examiner, after testing his mastery of some point of theology, said: 'We
will now leave that part of the subject,' and the candidate, carried
away by his interest in the subject, answered: 'No, sir; if you please,
we will not leave it yet,' and began to pour forth a fresh stream. Ten
days later, after a morning much disturbed and excited he rode in the
afternoon, and by half-past four the list was out, with Gladstone and
Denison both of them in the first class; Phillimore and Maurice in the
second; Herbert in the fourth.

Then mathematics were to come. The interval between the two schools he
passed at Cuddesdon, working some ten hours a day at his hardest, riding
every day with Denison, and all of them in high spirits. But optics,
algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, and the rest, filled him with
misgivings for the future. 'Every day I read, I am more and more
thoroughly convinced of my incapacity for the subject.' 'My work