Nor did he become an archer of the Queen's
Body-Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
He did not even frequent the Evening Club, where his colleague Tait
(in my day) was so punctual and so genial. So that in some ways he
stood outside of the lighter and kindlier life of his new home. I
should not like to say that he was generally popular; but there as
elsewhere, those who knew him well enough to love him, loved him
well. And he, upon his side, liked a place where a dinner party
was not of necessity unintellectual, and where men stood up to him
in argument.
The presence of his old classmate, Tait, was one of his early
attractions to the chair; and now that Fleeming is gone again, Tait
still remains, ruling and really teaching his great classes. Sir
Robert Christison was an old friend of his mother's; Sir Alexander
Grant, Kelland, and Sellar, were new acquaintances and highly
valued; and these too, all but the last, have been taken from their
friends and labours. Death has been busy in the Senatus. I will
speak elsewhere of Fleeming's demeanour to his students; and it
will be enough to add here that his relations with his colleagues
in general were pleasant to himself.
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