y gone. Not at all. If you have the root of the matter in
you the school-work will insist upon this kind of thing as a relief.
My plan always was to recognise two lives as necessary--the one the
outer Kapelistic life of drudgery, the other the inner and cherished
life of the spirit. It is true that the one has a tendency to kill
the other, but it must not, and you must see that it does not. . . .
The pedagogic is needful for bread and butter, also for a certain
form of joy; of the inner life you know what I think."

These are wise words, and I believe they represent Brown more truly than
utterances which only seem more genuine because less deliberate. He was
as a house master excellent, with an excellence not achievable by men
whose hearts are removed from their work: he awoke and enjoyed fervent
friendships and the enthusiastic admiration of many youngsters; he must
have known of these enthusiasms, and was not the man to condemn them; he
had the abiding assurance of assisting in a kind of success which he
certainly respected. He longed for the day of emancipation, to return to
his Island; he was impatient; but I must decline to believe he was
unhappy.

Indeed, his presence sufficiently denied it. How shall I describe him?
A sturdy, thick-set figure, inclining to rotundity, yet athletic; a face
extraordinarily mobile; bushy, grey eyebrows; eyes at once deeply and
radiantly human, yet holding the primitive faun in their coverts; a broad
mouth made for broad, natural laughter, hearty without lewdness. "There
are nice Rabelaisians, and there are nasty; but the latter are not
Rabelaisians. I have an idea," he claimed, "that my judgment within this
area is infallible." And it was. All honest laughter he welcomed as a
Godlike function.

"God sits upon His hill,
And sees the shadows fly;
And if He laughs at fools, why should He not?"

And for that matter, why should not we? Though at this point his fine
manners intervened, correcting, counselling moderation. "I am certain God
made fools for us to enjoy, but there must be _an economy of joy_ in the
presence of a fool; you must not betray your enjoyment." Imagine all this
overlaid with a certain portliness of bearing, suggestive of the
high-and-dry Oxford scholar. Add something of the parsonic (he was
ordained deacon before leaving Oxford, but did not proceed to priest's
orders till near the end of his