continued and my reluctance to exertion increased with it.' For the
Sunday before the examination, this is the entry, and a characteristic
and remarkable one it is:--'Teaching in the school morning and evening.
Saunders preached well on "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Read Bible
and four of Horsley's sermons. Paid visits to old people.'

On December 10th the mathematical ordeal began, and lasted four days.
The doctor gave him draughts to quiet his excitement. Better than
draughts, he read Wordsworth every day. On Sunday (December 11th) he
went, as usual, twice to chapel, and heard Newman preach 'a most able
discourse of a very philosophical character, more apt for reading than
for hearing--at least I, in the jaded state of my mind, was unable to do
it any justice.' On December 14th, the list was out, and his name was
again in the first class, again along with Denison. As everybody knows,
Peel had won a double-first twenty-three years before, and in
mathematics Peel had the first class to himself. Mr. Gladstone in each
of the two schools was one of five. Anstice, whose counsels and example
he counted for so much at one epoch in his collegiate life, in 1830
carried off the same double crown, and was, like Peel, alone in the
mathematical first class.

It was an hour of thrilling happiness, between the past and the
future, for the future was, I hope, not excluded; and feeling was
well kept in check by the bustle of preparation for speedy
departure. Saw the Dean, Biscoe, Saunders (whom I thanked for his
extreme kindness), and such of my friends as were in Oxford; all
most warm. The mutual hand-shaking between Denison, Jeffreys, and
myself, was very hearty. Wine with Bruce.... Packed up my
things.... Wrote at more or less length to Mrs. G. [his mother],
Gaskell, Phillimore, Mr. Denison, my old tutor Knapp.... Left
Oxford on the Champion.

_December 15th._--After finding the first practicable coach to
Cambridge was just able to manage breakfast in Bedford Square. Left
Holborn at ten, in Cambridge before five.

Here he was received by Wordsworth, the master of Trinity, and father of
his Oxford tutor. He had a visit full of the peculiar excitement and
felicity that those who are capable of it know nowhere else than at
Oxford and Cambridge. He heard Hallam recite his declamation; was
introduced to the mighty Whewell, to Spedding, the great Baconian, to
Smyth