Fleeming's Acquaintance with a Student - His late Maturity of
Mind - Religion and Morality - His Love of Heroism - Taste in
Literature - V. His Talk - His late Popularity - Letter from M.
Trelat.
THE remaining external incidents of Fleeming's life, pleasures,
honours, fresh interests, new friends, are not such as will bear to
be told at any length or in the temporal order. And it is now time
to lay narration by, and to look at the man he was and the life he
lived, more largely.
Edinburgh, which was thenceforth to be his home, is a metropolitan
small town; where college professors and the lawyers of the
Parliament House give the tone, and persons of leisure, attracted
by educational advantages, make up much of the bulk of society.
Not, therefore, an unlettered place, yet not pedantic, Edinburgh
will compare favourably with much larger cities. A hard and
disputatious element has been commented on by strangers: it would
not touch Fleeming, who was himself regarded, even in this
metropolis of disputation, as a thorny table-mate. To golf
unhappily he did not take, and golf is a cardinal virtue in the
city of the winds.
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