cest.

Found comfortable saloon awaiting us at Bayonne, and so under weeping
skies we made our way to Pau. The landscape must be pretty, weather
permitting. As it was, we saw but little. Mr. G. dozed and read Max
Mueller's book on Anthropological Religions.

Arrived at Pau towards 5.30; drenching rain: nothing to be seen.

At tea time, a good little discussion raised by a protest against Dante
being praised for a complete survey of human nature and the many phases of
human lot. Intensity he has, but insight over the whole field of character
and life? Mr. G. did not make any stand against this, and made the curious
admission that Dante was too optimist to be placed on a level with
Shakespeare, or even with Homer.

Then we turned to lighter themes. He had once said to Henry Taylor, "I
should have thought he was the sort of man to have a good strong grasp of
a subject," speaking of Lord Grey, who had been one of Taylor's many
chiefs at the Colonial Office. "I should have thought," replied Taylor
slowly and with a dreamy look, "he was the sort of man to have a good
strong _nip_ of a subject." Witty, and very applicable to many men.

Wordsworth once gave Mr. G. with much complacency, as an example of his
own readiness and resource, this story. A man came up to him at Rydal and
said, "Do you happen to have seen my wife." "Why," replied the Sage, "I
did not know you had a wife!" This peculiarly modest attempt at pointed
repartee much tickled Mr. G., as well it might.

_Tuesday, Jan. 12._--Mr. G. completely recovered from two days of
indisposition. We had about an hour's talk on things in general, including
policy in the approaching session. He did not expect a dissolution, at the
same time a dissolution would not surprise him.

At noon they started for Perigord and Carcassonne, Nismes, Arles, and so
on to the Riviera full of kind things at our parting.

Chapter VII. The Fourth Administration. (1892-1894)

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