17. - . . . I am very glad we married young. I would not
have missed these five years, no, not for any hopes; they are my
own.
'NOV. 30. - I got through my Chatham lecture very fairly though
almost all my apparatus went astray. I dined at the mess, and got
home to Isleworth the same evening; your father very kindly sitting
up for me.
'DEC. 1. - Back at dear Claygate. Many cuttings flourish,
especially those which do honour to your hand. Your Californian
annuals are up and about. Badger is fat, the grass green. . . .
'DEC. 3. - Odden will not talk of you, while you are away, having
inherited, as I suspect, his father's way of declining to consider
a subject which is painful, as your absence is. . . . I certainly
should like to learn Greek and I think it would be a capital
pastime for the long winter evenings. . . . How things are
misrated! I declare croquet is a noble occupation compared to the
pursuits of business men. As for so-called idleness - that is, one
form of it - I vow it is the noblest aim of man.
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