g, nor fully know the
wonderful power of tender strength that seemed to wrap one's mind round
and bear one on with him, and that has lasted me ever since, and well
it may, for he was the very glory of my life.

V. T.

I am glad to have read it, because it explains a great deal that I was
too much of a child to understand; but I don't like it. I don't mean
for putting in the fatal thing I did in my ignorant folly. I knew
that, and she has softened my wilfulness. But there's too much
flummery, and he was a hundred times more than all that. I had rather
recollect him for myself, than have such a ladylike, drawing-room
picture; but Lucy means it well, and it is just as he smoothed and
combed himself down for her. Nobody should have done it but George.
He would have made a man of him.

D. Y.

As if George could have done it! A lady must always see a man somewhat
as a carpet knight, and ill would betide both if it were not so. But,
allowing for this, and the want of "more power to her elbow," I am
thankful to Mrs. Tracy for this vivid recall of the man to whom I and
all here owe an unspeakable debt. For my own part, I can only say that
from the day when I marvelled at his fortitude under the terrible pain
of the lion's bites, to that when I saw the almost unexampled triumph
of his will over the promptings of a disordered brain, he stood before
me the grandest specimen of manhood I ever met, ever a victor, and,
above all, over himself.

G. Y.

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