Hitherto I have failed, but I
keep a stout heart and mean to succeed. Frewen the observer, in
describing the paces of two horses, says, "Polly takes twenty-seven
steps to get round the school. I couldn't count Sophy, but she
takes more than a hundred."'
'FEB. 18TH, 1877. - We all feel very lonely without you. Frewen
had to come up and sit in my room for company last night and I
actually kissed him, a thing that has not occurred for years.
Jack, poor fellow, bears it as well as he can, and has taken the
opportunity of having a fester on his foot, so he is lame and has
it bathed, and this occupies his thoughts a good deal.'
'FEB. 19TH. - As to Mill, Austin has not got the list yet. I think
it will prejudice him very much against Mill - but that is not my
affair. Education of that kind! . . . I would as soon cram my boys
with food and boast of the pounds they had eaten, as cram them with
literature.'
But if Fleeming was an anxious father, he did not suffer his
anxiety to prevent the boys from any manly or even dangerous
pursuit.
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