the time--a passage of which the indignant and pathetic
undertone reflected the indignation and the sympathy of hundreds of men
of widely differing opinions.

The vote is an answer to a cry--that cry is one of dishonesty, and
this dishonesty the proposed resolution, as plainly as it dares to say
anything, insinuates. On this part of the question, those who have
ever been honoured by Mr. Newman's friendship must feel it dangerous
to allow themselves thus to speak. And yet they must speak; for no one
else can appreciate it as truly as they do. When they see the person
whom they have been accustomed to revere as few men are revered, whose
labours, whose greatness, whose tenderness, whose singleness and
holiness of purpose, they have been permitted to know intimately--not
allowed even the poor privilege of satisfying, by silence and
retirement--by the relinquishment of preferment, position, and
influence--the persevering hostility of persons whom they cannot help
comparing with him--not permitted even to submit in peace to those
irregular censures, to which he seems to have been even morbidly
alive, but dragged forth to suffer an oblique and tardy condemnation;
called again to account for matters now long ago accounted for; on
which a judgment has been pronounced, which, whatever others may think
of it, he at least has accepted as conclusive--when they contrast his
merits, his submission, his treatment, which they see and know, with
the merits, the bearing, the fortunes of those who are doggedly
pursuing him, it does become very difficult to speak without sullying
what it is a kind of pleasure to feel is _his_ cause by using hard
words, or betraying it by not using them. It is too difficult to
speak, as ought to be spoken, of this ungenerous and gratuitous
afterthought--too difficult to keep clear of what, at least, will be
_thought_ exaggeration; too difficult to do justice to what they feel
to be undoubtedly true; and I will not attempt to say more than enough
to mark an opinion which ought to be plainly avowed, as to the nature
of this procedure.[123]

FOOTNOTES:

[116] A pencilled note indicates that this illustration was suggested by
experiments in naval engineering carried on at one time by Mr. W.
Froude. Cf. T. Mozley, _Reminiscences_, vol. ii. p. 17.

[117] Hymn in Paris Breviary, _Commune Sanctarum Mulierum_.

[118] _Reminiscences_, ii. 243, 244. Cf. _B