'He says quite with awe, "He
would not have got on nearly so well if you had not helped him."'
'JUNE 27TH. - I do not see what I could do without Austin. He
talks so pleasantly and is so truly good all through.'
'JUNE 27TH. - My chief difficulty with Austin is to get him
measured for a pair of trousers. 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.
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